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Artist Owned Sheet Music™

The Wayfaring Stranger

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The Wayfaring Stranger | SSAA | Keane Southard | MusicSpoke - $2.00 x
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This setting of the American folk song "The Wayfaring Stranger" was composed over the course of a week in May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. A few nights after seeing the film “1917” during which a British soldier sings this song to his fellow soldiers before heading into a battle, I had a dream where I was singing the song in a choir, creating this rhythmic, hocketed and hummed accompaniment, reminiscent of African-American work songs, for a soloist who sang the words. I woke up and was intent on recreating this effect by completing a setting of this song. This setting is also inspired by Percy Grainger’s setting of the English folk song “Brigg Fair” for solo high male voice and mixed chorus, particularly in his use of making the choir hum as an accompanist for the soloist singing the words.

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Keane Southard

Score Details

Score Categories: Tenor-Bass, Soprano-Alto, Choral
Score Tags: sacred, folk song, gospel, TTBB, SSAA, soloist, unaccompanied

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