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JUBILEE SONGS

AS SUNG BY THE

JUBILEE SINGERS,

OF riSK UNIVERSITY,

(NASHVILLE, TENN.J

So 3^, / 0-^ UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARl' ASSOCIATION.

PRICE 25 CEISTTS.

Published by BIGLO W & MAIN, 426 Broome St.

Tivtou ^'c Bahwood, Mutic Steriolyptre, 27 Row Street, X. i'.

JUBILEE SONGS:

AS SUNG BY THE

JUBILEE SINGERS,

OF FISK UNIVERSITY,

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UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. P^HICE 25 CENTS.

Published by BIGLO W & MAIN, 425 Broome St.

EntercJ, according to Act of Cougrcss, A.D. 1S72, by BIGLOW A MAIN, in the Oflice of tho Librarian of Congress at Washington

PREFACE.

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In giving these melodies to the world for the first time in a tangible form, it seems desirable to say a few words about them as judged from a musical stand-point. It is cer- tain that the critic stands completely disarmed in their presence. He must not only recognize their immense power over audiences which include many people of the high.est culture, but, if he be not thoroughly encased in prejudice, he must yield a tribute of admi- ration on his own part, and acknowledge that these songs touch a chord which the most consummate art fails to reach. Something of this result is doubtless due to the singers as well as to their melodies. The excellent rendering of the Jubilee Band is made more effective and the interest is intensified by the comparison of their former state of slavery and degradation with the present prospects and hopes of their race, which crowd upon every listener's mind during the singing of their songs. Yet the power is chiefly in the songs themselves, and hence a brief analysis of them will be of Interest.

Their origin is unique. They are never " composed" after the manner of ordinary music, but spring into life, ready made, from the white heat of religious fervor during some protracted meeting in church or camp. They come from no musical cultivation whatever, but are the simple, ecstatic utterances of wholly untutored minds. From so unpromising a source we could reasonably expect only such a mass of crudities as would be unendurable to the culti- vated ear. On the contrary, however, the cultivated listener confesses to a new charm, and to a power never before felt, at least in its kind. What can we infer from this but that the child-like, receptive minds of these unfortunates were wrought upon with a true inspi- ration, and that this gift was bestowed upon them by an ever-watchful Father, to quicken the pulses of life, and to keep them from the state of hopeless apathy into which they were in danger of falling.

A technical analysisi of these melodias jshaws^sptne jntsrestrng facts. The .first pecu- liarity that strikes the atttnUon !>> in cb'djijiytiim. • This is! ^ff^n complicated, and some- times strikingly original. The second line of the "Rocks and the Mountains," (page 24) is one of many illustrations of this "^tateme^it. ]Eii^t' Although so new and strange, it is most remarkable that these effects are so extremely satisfactory. We see few cases of what theorists call mis-form, alth'cJi\gK the st.aclfeiit' of musici^rcompositidn is likely to fall into that error long after he has m^itv^nicf tte iea^ing pnnclples of the aK;. '

Another noticeable feature of the songs is the entire absence of triple time, or three- part measure among them. The reason for this is doubtless to be found in the beating of the foot and the swaying of the body, which are such frequent accompaniments of the singing. These motions are in even measure, and in perfect time ; and so it will be found that however broken and seemingly irregular the movement of the music, it is always ca- pable of the most exact measurement. In other words, its irregularities invariably conform to the "higher law" of the perfect rhythmic flow. i

3

It is a coincidence worthy of note that more that half the melodies in this collection are in the same scale as that in which Scottish music is written; that is, with the fourth and seventh tones omitted. The fact that the music of the ancient Greeks is also said to have been written in this scale, suggests an interesting inquiry as to whether it may not be a peculiar language of nature, or a simpler alphabet than the ordinary diatonic scale, in which the uncultivated mind finds its easiest expression.

The variety of forms presented in these songs is truly surprising, when their origin is considered. This diversity is greater than the listener would at first be likely to suppose. The frequent recurrence of one particular effect, viz.: that given on the last syllable of the word " chariot " in the first line of " Swing Low," conveys an impression of sameness which is not justified by the general structure of the songs. The themes are quite as dis- tinct and varied as in the case of more pretentious compositions.

One criticism has been made on the singing of the Jubilee Band, which deserves notice. It has been frequently said, especially by persons who have been at the South, and heard the singing of the camp-meetings: "This music is too good. It is too refined. There is too nice a balancing of the parts, and too much delicate shading to be a genuine representation of slave-music." The objection is easily answered, in this wise. The manner and style of singing at the South depends entirely upon the degree of culture in the congregation. There is a very great difference between the lowest and the highest, in this respect. It cannot be thought strange that the musical feeling which is so prolific in original melodies should soon find its way to the enjoyment of harmony in the singing of various parts. The Jubilee Singers, no doubt, represent the highest average of culture among the colored people, but the singing of these songs is all their own, and the quickness with which they have received impressions and adopted improvements from the cultivated music they have heard, only affords an additional illustration of the high capabilities of the race.

The public may feel assured that the music herein given is entirely correct. It was taken down from the singing of the band, during repeated interviews held for the purpose, and no line or phrase was introduced that did not receive full indorsement from the singers. Some of the phrases and turns in the melodies are so peculiar that the listener might not unreasonably suppose them to be incapable of exact representation by ordinary musical characters. It is found, however, that they all submit to the laws of musical language, and if they are sung or played exactly as written, all the characteristic effects will be reproduced.

It is believed that the selection of melodies here presented will not only prove inter- esting as a study, but that they will, by their quaint forms, their inherent beauty, and their genuine pathos, bring a new element of pleasure into any social circle into which they may be introduced.

THEO. F. SEWARD,

Orange, N. J.

I

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Been a listening, . 25

Children, we all shall be free, 13

Cliildren, you'll be called on 19

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, 16

From every graveyard, 12

Give me Jesus, 19

Gwine to ride up the chariot, 20

Go down, Moses, 22

I'm a rolling, 14

I'll hear the trumpet sound, 15

I've just come from the fountain, 18

I'm traveling to the grave, . . . . . . . 27

Keep me from sinking down, 26

Many thousand gone, 27

Nobody knows the trouble I see. Lord, 5

O Redeemed, 8

Room enough, 7

Roll, Jordan, roll, 9

Rise, mourners, rise, .11

Swing low, ...... ... 6

Steal away, 28

Turn back Pharaoh' s army, 10

The Rocks and the Mountains, 24

We'll die in the field, 21

JUBILEE SONGS.

It will be observed that in most of these songs the first strain is of the nature of a chorus or refrain, which is to be sung after each verse. The return to this chorus should be made without breaking the time.

In some of the verses the syllables do not correspond exactly to the notes in the music. The adaptation is so easy that it was thought best to leave it to the skill of the singer rather than to confuse the eye by too many notes. The music is in each case carefully adapted to the first verse. Whatever changes may be necessary in singing the remaining verses will be found to involve no difficulty.

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2 Sisters, will you pray for me, <fec.

3 Mothers, will you pray for me, <fec.

4 Preachers, will you pray for me, <fcc.

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Jubilee Songs.

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3. The brightest day that ever I saw.

Coming for to carry me home, When Jesus washed my sins away. Coming for to carry me home. Swing low. <fcc.

4. I'm sometimes up and sometimes down,

Coming for to carry me home. But stillmy soul feels heavenly bound. Coming for to carry me home. Swing low, ifcc.

Jubilee Songs,

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2 Oh, mourners don't stay away, (;UO._For the Bible says there's room enough, etc.

3 Oh, sinners don't stay away, (;H0.— For the angel says there's room enough, etc.

4 Oh, children don't stay away, (jHO.— For Jesus says there's room enough, etc.

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Jubilee Songs,

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3 Heligion's like a blooming rose,

Washed in the blood of the Lamb, As none but those that feel it knows. Washed in the blood of the Lamb, 0 redeemed, <S:C.

* Attention is called to this characteristic manner of connecting the last strain with the chorus in the D. C.

Jubilee Songs.

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2 Oh, preachers, you ought t'have been there, etc.

3 Oh, sinners, 3'ou ought, etc.

4 Oh, mourners, you ought, etc,

5 Oh, seekers, you ought, etc.

6 Oh, mothers, you ought, etc.

7 Oh, children, you ought, etc.

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Jubilee Songs.

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4. When the children were in bondage. They cried unto the Lord, He turned back Pharaoli's army, etc.

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When Moses smote the water. The children all passed over, And turned back Pharaoh's army. etc.

6. When Pharaoh crossed the water, The waters came together. And drowned ole Pharaoh's army, etc.

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2 Rise, seekers, rise, seekers, etc.

3 Rise, sinners, rise, sinners, etc.

4 Rise, brothers, rise, brothers, etc.

• This hymn is sung with great unction while " seekers " are going forward to the altar.

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Jubilee Songs,

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hold that number From ev - e - rj grave - yard, Going to

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meet the brothers there, That used

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Going to meet the preachers there. That used to join, &c, CHO.— Just behold that number, JL-c.

4 Going to meet the mourners there. That used to join, <Jk;C.

OHO.— Just behold that number, it-c.

5 Going to meet the Christians there, That used to join, &c.

CHO.— Just behold that number, <fcc.

Jubilee Songs

13

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3 Give ease to the sick, give sight to the blind.

Enable the cripple to walk ; He'll raise the dead from under the earth. And give them permission to fly. CHO.— Children, we all shall be free, etc.

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* The words, " On Jordan's stormy banks I stand," are sometimes sung to this strain.

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Jubilee Songs.

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2 0 sisters, wont you help me,

0 sisters, wont you lielp me to pray ; 0 sisters, wont you help me. Wont you help me in the service of the Lord 1 CHO.— I'm a-rolling, &c.

3 0 preachers, wont you help me,

0 preachers, wont you help me to fight ; 0 preachers, wont you help me, Wont you help me in the service of the Lord ? CHO— I'm a-rolling, <fcc.

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in the W est ; But 1*11 hear the trumpet sound In that morning.

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hear the trum - pet sound. In that morn - ing.

2 Father Gabriel in that day, He'll take wings and fly away, For to hear the trumpet sound

In that morning. You may bury him in the East, You may bury him in the West ; Hut he'll hear the trumpet sound.

In til at morning. CHO.— In that morning, &c.

3 Good old christians in that day, They'll take wings and fly away, X-c.

4 Good old preachers, <fcc.

5 In that dreadful Judgment day I'll take wings and fly away, ic.

* Repeat the music of the first strain for all the verses but the first.

16

Jubilee Songs

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Jubilee Songs,

17

2d Vebse.

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shine, And ev - c - rj star dis -ap-pear, King Je - sus shall be mine.

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day, And every poor soul that never did pray, '11 be glad to pray that day.

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Canaan's shore, And I'll nev - er come back a - nv more.

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Jubilee Songs.

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3 Dark midniizht was my cry. Dark midnight was my ciy.

Dark midnight was my cry— give me Jesus, etc.

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4 0 Avhat do you say, preachers, etc.

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3 No more shall they in bondage toil,

Let my people go ; Let them cbme out with Egypt's spoil.

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4 When Israel out of Egypt came.

Let my people go • And left tlie proud oppressive land.

Let my people go. Go down, Moses, etc.

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5. 0, 'twas a dark and dismal night,

Let my people go; When Moses led the Israelites,

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The Lord told Moses what to do,

Let my people go; To lead the children of Israel through.

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8. 0 come along Moses, you'll not get lost.

Let my people go; Stretch out your rod and come across,

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9. As Israel stood by the water side.

Let my people go; At the command of God it did divide,

Let my people go.

10. When they had reached the other shore.

Let my people go; They sang a song of triumph o'er, " Let my people go.

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You'll not get lost in the wilderness,

Let my people ^o; With a lighted candle in your breast.

Let my people go.

14. Jordan shall stand up like a wall.

Let my people go; And the walls of Jericho shall tall

Let my people so.

15. Your foes shall not before you stand,

Let my people go; And you'll possess lair Canaan's land.

Let my people go.

16. 'Twas just about in harvest time.

Let my people go; When Joshua led his host divine.

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17. 0 let us all from bondage flee.

Let my people go; " And let us'all in Christ be free,

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18. We need not always weep and moan.

Let my people go; And wear these slavery chains forlorn,

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19. This world's a wilderness of woe.

Let my people go ^ 0, let us on to Canaan go.

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20. What a beautiful morning that w ill be,

Let my people go ; When time breaks u|| in eternity.

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21. The Devil he thought he had me fast, • Let my people go; But I thought I'd break his chains at Let my people go. [last,

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0 take yer shoes from off yer feet. Let my people go;

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Mourner, mourner, give up your heart to God, etc.

Sinner, sinner, give up your heart to God, etc.

Sister, sister, give up your heart to God, etc.

Mother, mother, give up your heart to God, etc.

Children, children, give up your heart to God, etc.

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3 When I was a mourner just like you ;

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4 1 bless the Lord I'm gwine to die :

Keep me from sinking down : I'm gwine to judgment by-and-by ; Keep me from sinking down. Oh, Lord, etc.

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3 ^0 more driver's lash for me, etc.

4 No more pint o' salt for me, etc.

5 No more hundred lash for me, etc.

6 No more mistress' call for me, etc.

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INTRODUCTION

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

In giving this little 'volume to the public, it seems due to all concerned that some statements should be made respecting the Songs, the Singers, and the Inter- ests they represent.

I. The Songs. — Of these neither the words or the music have ever before been published, or even reduced to written form, at least, to the knowledge of the Jubilee Singers.*

The most of them they learned in childhood — the others, which were not com- mon in the portion of the South in which they were raised, they have received directly from those who were accustomed to sing them. These songs, therefore, can be relied upon as the genuine songs of their race, being in words and music the same as sung by their ancestors in the cabin, on the plantation, and in their religious worship.

By the severe discipline to which the Jubilee Singers have been subjected in the school-room, they have been educated out of the peculiarities of the Negro dialect, and they do not attempt to imitate the peculiar pronunciation of their race. They have also received considerable musical instruction, and have become familiar with much of our best sacred and classical music, and this has modified their manner of execution. They do not attempt to imitate the grotesque bodily motions or the drawling intonations that often characterize the singing of great congregations of the colored people in their excited religious meetings.

It is true, however, both of the words and the music that whatever modification they have undergone, has been wholly in the minds of the Singers under the in- fluence of the training and culture they have received in the University of which they are members.

The words were taken down from their lips by Mr. White, who has had the charge of their musical training, and the music was reduced to writing by Theo. F, Seward, Editor of the New Fork Musical Gazette, and as he states in his introduction, "Every melody was tested by being played on the piano- forte, and no line or phrase was introduced that did not receive full indorsement from the Singers."

• " I'm traveling to the grave," and " Keep me from sinking down," were taken down at a concert, after tlie other pieces were in the hands of the printer, and this introduction prepared , aiiii before it. was known that they had been previously written by Mr. Robbins Battel!, and published, with pianoforte accompaniment, by Messrs. Oliver Ditson & Co., of Boston. — fT P S.

It is believed that the/brm and spin'/ of the best Spiritual Songs of slave-life in the South were never before so perfectly presented to the public.

2. The Jubilee Singers are a Company of Students of Fisk University, Nash- ville, Tenn., organized by and under the direction of Geo. L. White, Treasurer of the University, and composed as follows:

Miss ELLA SHEPPARD, Pianist and Soprano. " JENNIE JACKSON, Soprano. " MAGGIE POKTER, Soprano. " MINNIE TATE, Contralto. '• ELIZA WALKER, Contralto. Mr. THOMAS RUTLING, Tenor. " BEN. M. HOLMES, Tenor. " LP. DICKERSON. Bass. " GREENE EVANS, Bass.

Seven of the nine have been slaves, and were freed by the Emancipation Pro- clamation. The other two were born free, but have always lived in the South. They became members of Fisk University in order to secure a liberal Christian education that should fit them to become the instructors of theii race. Their musical training has been only incidental, while they have been pursuing their regular studies, with the exception of the special drill given during the vacation of last summer, preparatory to entering upon their present mission.

They are before the public not as professional singers, but as a company of students desirous of using their musical ability to help the University of which they are members, in the time of its necessity.

3. The Interests represented by the Jubilee Singers deserve special notice.

As has been said, they are students, and are before the public in behalf of the education of their race. They represent one of the earliest established, and most successful, of the chartered educational institutions that have been founded, and are being fostered in the South, by the benevolence of the Christian and phil- anthropic people of the North. In themselves, they illustrate the value of these Institutions, and their singing of the spiritual songs which have cheered their an- cestors in their bondage, in order to raise the needed funds to enlarge their useful- ness, is a touching plea for more generous help on the part of their friends.

They hope not only to raise $20,000 by their own efforts, but to make the friends, who shall as needed, give the hundreds of thousands which will be re- quired to enable Fisk University to realize the hopes and plans of its founders, and to do the work for God and humanity which they believe it is possible for it to accomplish. A few words of history will, it is hoped, help them in doing this.

In October, 1865, a half-block of land in the city of Nashville, Tenn., was pui chased, and the use of the large Government Hospital located on it, was secured for the purpose of establishing a permanent institution for the education of the freedmen. At that time no provision for colored children was made by either the city or State, in the public schools.

For the first two years the Institution was conducted virtually as a free public school, and had an attendance of over a thousand pupils annually. In August, 1867, the charter of Fisk University was secured, and the societies, with the help of a Board of Trustees, began in faith and hope the work of building up an in- stitution, that should, as soon as possible, in the nature of the case, become to the colored people what the older Universities of Tennessee are to the whites.

The title to the hospital buildings was secured, a large chapel and dormitory for girls were erected, and the Academic, Normal and Collegiate Preparatory De- partments were at once established.

The annual attendance since that time has been about five hundred, near one hundred of whom are from abroad and board in the Institution.

The College Department was established at the beginning of the present year, and a Freshman class of four regularly entered.

There are also four students pursuing theological studies.

Thus the work of Collegiate and Professional Education has been fairly begun, and the number of pupils who are pressing forward towards these higher depart- ments is large.

It has therefore become an imperative necessity in the development of Fisk University to prepare for this higher educational work, by the erection of new and suitable buildings.

The question, how shall this necessity be met, has weighed heavily on the minds of teachers and pupils, as well as of the officers of the American Mission- ary Association, under whose fostering care the work is being carried forward. The answer has come, under God, through the instrumentality of the students themselves.

The success of the Jubilee Singers will secure the erection of Jubilee Hall, which shall stand as a memorial, and be an inspiration for the future.

It will be a testimony that ' ' hitherto hath the Lord helped us," and will beget a faith that shall be the "substance of things hoped for."

In a broader sense, the Jubilee Singers represent the interests of the great work of the American Missionary Association, as embodied in a system of schools, reaching to every Southern State, and including six other institutions similar in character to Fisk University, and nineteen Academic Schools with Normal Depart- ments, besides nearly one hundred common schools.

It is hoped that the visit of these students to the communities and churches that have hitherto given them a helping hand, and the touching power of their songs, as heard from their lips or learned from these pages, will result in a quickening of interest and a deepening of conviction, which will be manifest in years to come in more liberal giving.

E. U. CRAVATH, Field Secretary.

Rooms of the American Musionary Association,

59 Reade Street, New York City, March ist, 1872.

NOTICES FROM THE PRESS.

Since the peculiar songs of the Jubilee Singers have never before been published, but have been brought to the notice of the public only as sung by them, naturally, the Singers and their songs have been spoken ot together iu such a way, that it is niipossible fairly to present what has been said of the one without giving much that has been said of liie 01 hers

The Jubilee Songs as sung by the Jubilee Singers, have been extensively noticed in the secular and religious press during the past three months, and tlie extracts here presented fairly represent tlie present public estimate of them.

Rev. W. II. Goodrich, D.D., of Cleveland, Ohio, says in tlie N. Y. Evangelist:

"We have an abundance of the best musical performance in our citv. but we have never listened to any music which compared with this in sympathetic power. We )iave never heard voices which were blended in a harmony so absolute. Witli no accessory of dress, with no stage manners, or daptraj) of any kind, they have simply thrilled their audiences and held them spell-bound. They do not confine themselves to tlieir own songs, but have a wide range of pieces; choruses from the operas, familiar English and Scotch ballads, and occasionally a Sunduy-school hymn. Every thing becomes new under

the charm of tlieir un-English voices. Their tones are molten somid, and their expression is quaint and instinctive. They render " Home, Sweet Home," as it never was rendered before, perhaps because only of late liad they "themselves a home they could call their own.

"The most remarkable part of their singing, however, is in the "Praise songs" v^'hich they bring out of their old slave-life. Born of ignorant emotion, uncorrected by any reading of Scripture, ihev are contused in language, broken ni connection, wild and odd iu suggestion, but inconceivably toucliing, and sometimes grand. At tirst you smile or laugh out at the queer association of ideas, but before you know it your eyes fill and your heart is heaving with a true devotional feeling. You see clearly that these songs have been, in their untaught years, a real liturgy, a cry of the soul to God. It is easy to understand how gi-eat congregations or household groups might have found a living and exhaustless worship in them."

Kev. TllEO. L. CCYLEU in the jV. Y. Tribune says:

" I never saw a cultivated Brooklyn assemblage so moved and melted under the magnetism of mus'^ before. The wild melodies of these emancipated slaves touched the fount of tears, and gray -haired men wept like little children.

"In the programme last evening were not only the well known slave songs "Go down, Moses," "Roll, Jordan lioU," and "Turn back Pharaoh's army,'" but a fresh collection of the most weird and plaintive hymns sung in the plantation cabins in the dark days of bondage. One young uegress — exceediug " black yet comely," — sang a wild yet most delicious melody, '• I'll hear de trumpet sound iu the morning," which was the verv embodiment of African heart-music. Listening to their rich, plaintive voices, one might imagine liimself in the veritable Uncle Tom's cabin of the "old dispensation.'"

Rev. H. \V. Beecher in a Lecture-room talk, says :

" We hear a good deal of fine singing in this city, but there are some things we cannot have. You can now hear the songs that have been fung by generations of benighted souls, on the plantation, by day and by night — songs that have enabled the captive to endure his chains, the mother to Uope against hope, and keep her soul up when all looked black and dark ; when she had parted from all slie loved, and the iron had entered into her soul."

The New Haven Palladium.

" If success consists in the ability to draw a crowd, the Jubilee Singers achieved the greatest success last evening. The North Church was literally packed with eager listeners, and many were compelled to turn away for want of room. But the singers were successful beyond this. They fully met the anti- cipations of the audience, and showed that they had fairly won the praise that has been lavished upon them.

'"The slave songs of the South have ne.arly passed into history. This is one of the last — the last and only chance to many — that will ever be afforded lor hearing the quaint and wild strains in which the Southern negroes gave vent to their pent up feelings.

'•Their Praise songs are remarkable. They are full of tiiat uncultlrated emotion winch, because it is real, touches every heart. They are weird, and wild, original in style, but touching, and at times grand."

T/ie Neirark Courier.

" Space will not permit allusion to every song, but the religious melodies must not go unnoticed. The music and words were strange and weird. The sensation produced was one of joy and sadness combined; it was a study to watch the audience — some were laughing, some crying — all seemed hys- terical. The melody was absolutely perfect, the time absolutely correct. They were sung generally without accompaniment of any kind. Tiiey would swing from major to minor keys and back, with strange swayings, like boughs in the wind. Fugues abounded — such fugues! but never a discord — now fast, now slow ; now soft, now loud. The authorship of these songs is lost in the dark past of tliis strange race. They come to us now as traditions of their weary bondage."

Oranrje, (X. J.,) Chronicle.

"The slave songs of praise were impressive and really beautiful, and what is most singular about them their origin is entirely unknown. They seem to bave sprung up among the colored people with- out outside aid, and they are sung by none else.''

Norwich Bulletin.

" Tliose who have heard them bear testimony to their power in rendering the songs, the very history of which is full of mournful interest The wild melody of these emancipated slaves has a magnetism about it rarely equalled. They give the genuine soul-music of the slave cabins, and have at command a collection oi the most weird and plaintive hymns peculiar to their race."

West Meriden Recorder.

" All their purely Southern melodies of the plantation, of the camp-meetings, are of such a semi- mournful cast ; of such simplicity of construction, and delivered with such a freeuess from affectation, that no wonder an audience is fascinated by their performance."

Jersey City Journal.

"The peculiar intonations, the sudden changes, the intense vitality of the music, the oddity of the language, all Combine to make such "Jubilee "songs most effective. In the different class of songs, the plaintive and pathetic, the effect is not less note- worthy.'

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