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African American spirituals comprise one of the world's greatest and best-loved bodies of music. The Oxford Book of Spirituals is the first anthology to present a comprehensive survey of the genre's repertoire -- its principal composers, themes, and forms -- in a way that is at oncestylistically authentic, historically meaningful, and intended for practical use both in worship and in concert. This collection features a rich array of songs, both familiar and less familiar, arranged for SATB choir by twenty-eight of the most significant American composers and presented inchronological order from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.Hogan, Moses is the author of 'Oxford Book of Spirituals' with ISBN 9780193863040 and ISBN 0193863049.
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