So You Want to Sing Spirituals: A Guide for Performers - Paperback

by Randye Jones (Author)

This volumes provides singers a comprehensive guide to the history of and performance techniques for spirituals. Along with Jones's own considerations of dialect, improvisation, and other technical considerations, contributed chapters address collaborative piano, studio teaching, choral arrangement, and voice science and health.

Author Biography

Randye Jones first learned about spirituals at her home church in North Carolina. She has been a presenter at the Research, Education, Activism, and Performance National Conference on Spirituals and conferences of the African American Art Song Alliance, the National Association of Negro Musicians, the Music Library Association, and the Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium.