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1872 / Gospel & spirituals

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Spiritual · 1872 choral edition · Jubilee Songs (1872), p. 6

A spiritual sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. This early edition alternates a solo line with choral responses.

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The upper and lower parts of this site's existing digital score are assigned to the right and free-bass left hands without changing pitches or note values. No accompaniment notes were added. Consult the source PDF for the original notation.

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Source and rights

Public-domain music and edition. This is the 1872 Jubilee Songs notation transcribed by Theodore F. Seward (1835–1902), not a later arrangement.

1872 scan at Hymnology Archive