From "Cadences of Sorrow" to "Cadences of Joy" in the Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh

From “Cadences of Sorrow” to “Cadences of Joy” in the Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh

Sam Falotico

CUNY GSIM (virtual) | March 24–25, 2023

MTSMA (The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University) | March 24–25, 2023

MTSNYS (New York University) | April 1–2, 2023

Abstract

Works Cited (Selected)

Burleigh, Negro Spirituals (1917) – complete score

Score to “Deep River” from Burleigh’s Negro Spirituals (1917)

Score to “Deep River” from Marsh’s The Story of the Jubilee Singers and Their Songs (1892 [2003])

Score to “Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve Seen” from Burleigh’s Negro Spirituals (1917)

Score to “You’ll git dar in de mornin’!” (music by Harry T. Burleigh, words by F.L. Stanton [1902])

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