The Good Physician with There’s a Balm in Gilead - SAB arrangement with piano (arr. Stephen R Dalrymple) by Stephen R Dalrymple Sheet Music for SAB Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Stephen R Dalrymple

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Unknown

Arranger Stephen R Dalrymple

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 26

Arrangement SAB Choir

Publisher Stephen R Dalrymple

Product ID 914720

Genre Folk

Instruments Choir

Product Description

The Good Physician with Theres a Balm in Gilead - Soprano, Alto, and Baritone arrangement by Stephen R Dalrymple Balm in Gilead (in this arrangement) is NOT the well-known negro spiritual (There is a Balm in Gilead). This is evidently an earlier song with some similar words in the refrain. The Good Physician was published in the shape note hymnal, The Southern Harmony and Music Companion as early as 1835. Balm in Gilead was published in The Revivalist as early as 1868. Both of these songs were collected by their publishers and the lack of a listed composer shows their apparent age. The Good Physician has 4 verses with no refrain. Balm in Gilead has 4 verses with a refrain. Music and hymn singing was an important catalyst in both the First Great Awakening (1730 to about 1755 in colonial America) and the Second Great Awakening (1790-1840 in the American frontier of the time.) The arranger tried to achieve a frontier-like setting for the arrangement, going so far as to set The Good Physician in the mixolydian mode. This edition includes 3 files 1) the full score 2) vocal parts 3) smaller size suitable loading onto a 10 inch tablet

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