Let Me Ride
By: Katherine Hicks and Sydney Perkins
Background Information
Arrangement by Roger Emerson; Traditional Spiritual
TIme Signature is 2/2
It is a 3 part mixed with piano
Origin of Let Me Ride is Spiritual
Spiritual Facts
-Spiritual are religious songs that were created by enslaved African people in the United States
-The term "spiritual song" was often used in the black and white christian community through the 19th century
-George Pullen Jackson extended the term spiritual to a wider range of folk hymnody
-Negro spirituals are a musical form that is native and specific to the religious experience in the United States of Africans and their descendants.
Arranger
Roger Emerson
-Roger is a professional composer and arranger with over 900 choral titles in print.
-Over 30 million copies in circulation
-He is the most widely performed composer/arranger in choral music today.
-has been a recipent of the ASCAP's Standard Award for 20 years.