Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Traditional (spiritual)

For horn and piano

Written in D major, range A3 to B4

A slow, hushed hope: the singer looks across the River Jordan and sees a band of angels coming with a chariot to carry them home to heaven. The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a choir of Black students, sang it around the world in the 1870s; the piano part is Harry T. Burleigh’s (1917).

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