Angel Band sheet music

Host of Angels from The Nativity by Gerard David- Flemish, active by about 1484, died 1523.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Terms: Jefferson Hascall, 1860
Songs: William Batchelder Bradbury, 1862

arr. Ruth Randle, 2014
in honor of Merv Rowley's 94th birthday!
Merv is our guide, who established this website in the past,
and drew other individuals into this functional tuning we call "1-3-5".

A lot of you may understand this song as performed because of the Stanley Brothers, included in the sound recording of this motion picture Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, or perhaps The Monkees, or Johnny money, nevertheless tune is a lot avove the age of that.

Compiled by Jefferson Hascall as a poem, and originally called "My newest sunlight Is Sinking Fast”, Angel Band ended up being put to music and posted first-in 1860 by J. W. Dadmun inside the tunebook The Melodeon, but had been later on mounted on its familiar melody we understand today by William Batchelder Bradbury, and published in 1862 in the Bradbury's Golden Shower of S.S. Melodies. Bradbury's tune was initially known as The Land of Beulah.

This has its origins in a kind of songs labeled as "shape note singing", started in the 1800's, in an effort to show people who couldn't know how to review music, to sing gorgeous hymns and anthems in 4 component balance. This kind created first as some just 4 shapes, and was called the fasola system, often known as Sacred Harp. The records were known as fa, sol, la, and mi. This means that each shape had several note assigned to it. Afterwards, William Walker developed a 7-shape system, assigning a different shape on 7 records of a scale. He published Angel Band inside the Christian Harmony guide in 1866.

This as a type of music is known as "Solfege", also known as do, re, mi, fa, sol, los angeles and ti - believe "Sound of songs" - "Do, a deer, a lady deer..." etc. The exact secret is certainly not crucial, the "leader" would establish an integral which (hopefully) would accommodate all of the performing voices present. The singers sat based on their particular parts - soprano, alto, tenor, bass - in a sizable square facing one other. They began by singing the track in "solfege", to determine the melody, and would after that sing all passages. The sound ended up being often rather awesome! Shape Note Singings are held today, predominantly when you look at the Southern, regularly followed closely by a massive potluck dinner labeled as "Dinner on the floor"..

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They sing it first with all the fa so la's, and if the words start showing from the screen, they sing what, in 4 component harmony - very powerful!