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FOR CHORAL USE

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HARMONIZED BY

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Folk songs have sprung from the soil, uncultivated, like wild flowers. The history
of folk music leads us into the home of simplicity and primitive emotions that find an
outlet in song that voices the singer’s joy and sorrow, hope and despair. In no form
or self-expression is a people’s heritage more easily traced. It bears the indelible
mark of a racial temperament evolved through a great variety of conditions in which
history and climate are outstanding factors. It is claimed with some show of reason
that our country has no folk song; that the essential conditions from which folk music
is evolved, are not, never haVe been and never will be present in our land. That is
probably true with respect to the native white race. Our songs have been made for us.

But for generations we have had a great Negro population whose early days were in-
fluenced by conditions that make folk music inevitable; and in the songs called “Spirit-
uals " are to be found all the essentials of true folk music.

Its roots are in the soil of our land; it found its first expression among dwellers
in our land, many of them native, and all destined to become an integral part of our
citizenship. They are chiefly religious songs owing to the fact that religion was the
Negro’s sole refuge in troubled times, and he escaped despair by evoking the hopeful-
ness that lay in the vivid picture of a new Kingdom to come. Seldom do we find the
note of tragedy that sounds so persistently in the folk songs of the Slavic races. It
may justly be said that almost every spiritual is an anodyne for sorrow; and, while
one feels that sorrow is at the roots of it, there is an exaltation of faith and hope that
overwhelms all lesser emotions, and it is not difficult to understand the comfort the
early singers derived from these songs.

Originating as simple folk tunes, many of these spirituals have been developed
into works of genuine art. There is so much mingled tenderness, pathos and power
in the melodies that the impulse to enlarge them in form and expression has been felt
by expert musicians, and wherever the songs have been treated with full comprehen-
sion of the spirit that brought them into being, the result has been to endow the
literature of music with new treasure.

The Negroes themselves first recognized the possibilities for enlarging and embellish~
ing their primitive songs and we have become familiar with many of them in the ver—
sions used by various groups of “Jubilee singers”. The musical instinct of the Negro
race has often produced extraordinary results in the singing of these songs, eflects
which white singers try in vain to achieve. But we need not, for that reason, forego
the genuine pleasure to be found in singing and listening to these beautiful songs, or
from studying their subtle charm and almost unlimited possibilities for development
into art forms.

The examples in this book represent an attempt to emphasize racial charac-
teristic: from the primitive melodies, rich in rhythmic and harmonic suggestion,
Mr. Loomis has built his structure by careful and sympathetic study of the
N egro’s instinct and imagination, and his methods of expressing them. They contain
nothing that is inconsistent with the origin and true development of this priceless
store of melody, and at no time is the basic tune lost sight of or slighted for the sake of
meretricious effect.

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‘This Spiritual, in common with many others possesses a humorous element, yet these songs were never conceived
in a spirit of irreverence, the Deity was regarded as a very human and loving father, always willing to sympathize
with his children's moods, whether gay or sombre, thus a most intimate and everyday form of expression was inev-
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J acob’s Ladder

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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0 Mother, Don’t You Weep

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Give Me Jesus
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Pharaoh’s Army‘
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Allegro con splrlto
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you want your souls con — vert- ed, You’d bet - ter be a — pray—ing To

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turn back Pha-raoh’s ar-my, Hal - 1e - 111! When the chil-dren were in bond-age They
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I’m goin’ to laydown my heav- y load._

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Dat Je—sus He done all tings W611?_.

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