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All of Deep River, from "Deep river, my home is over Jordan,", in its parts: the tune with the others under it. Your part is the Tenor. Press a voice to take it out of the harmony or bring it back.

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Stage 01No. 01

Deep River

E♭ major · Intermediate

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Stage 02No. 02

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

A minor · Beginner

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Stage 03No. 03

Every Time I Feel the Spirit

E♭ major · Beginner

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Stage 04No. 04

Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

G major · Intermediate

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Stage 05No. 05

Go Down, Moses

G minor · Beginner

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Stage 06No. 06

Michael, Row the Boat Ashore

F major · Verse 1 · Beginner

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Stage 07No. 07

Steal Away

F major · Beginner

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Stage 08No. 08

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

G major · Beginner

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Stage 09No. 09

There Is a Balm in Gilead

A major · Beginner

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Stage 10No. 10

Wade in the Water

F minor · Intermediate

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Stage 11No. 11

Were You There

G major · Beginner

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Bars show each part on one scale, E2 to G5. The line is middle C.

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Where these spirituals come from

Spirituals are songs first sung by enslaved African Americans. They were sung long before they were written down; the first printed collections came after emancipation, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers carried them across the United States from 1871 and to Europe from 1873. Composers such as Harry T. Burleigh later set them for concert singers and choirs.

Deep River is Burleigh's own setting, as G. Schirmer printed it in 1914; Go Down, Moses keeps the four-part answer from Theodore F. Seward's Jubilee Songs of 1872; and There Is a Balm in Gilead keeps the four parts R. Nathaniel Dett printed in his Hampton Institute collection of 1927. The rest are our own four-part arrangements of the traditional tunes and words. Each song's page tells where it comes from. Learn the words and their story as well as the notes.

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Stackapella recording the alto part of Amazing Grace: each note is a bar with its name, and the one being sung says A little low, go up. Stackapella recording the alto part of Amazing Grace: each note is a bar with its name, and the one being sung says A little low, go up. Stackapella recording the alto part of Amazing Grace: each note is a bar with its name, and the one being sung says A little low, go up. Stackapella recording the alto part of Amazing Grace: each note is a bar with its name, and the one being sung says A little low, go up.
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