"And did those feet" arrangement
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When I was in high school I attended a summer camp on Long Island for performing and visual arts called Usdan. I was often in the chorus, and one staple song was Jerusalem - the lyrics are William Blake's "And did those feet in ancient time", originally set to music as a hymn by Sir Hubert Parry (pipe organ and all).
I am trying to find the particular arrangement that we always sang - at a minimum who did the arrangement, ideally a decent recording of it and/or sheet music. This arrangement was for piano and four vocal parts (or at least it was played on piano). The first verse started with the female voices in unison for the first sentence ("And did those feet...), then the male voices in unison for the second sentence ("And was the holy lamb of God..."), and then broke into four parts (either at "And did the countenance divine..." or "And was Jerusalem builded here..."). A similar pattern was used in the chorus (Women: "Bring me my bow..." Men: "Bring me my spear..." Women: "I will not cease..." All: "Till we have built Jerusalem..."), though I may be misremembering who said which lines. The chorus sand a lot of Aaron Copland pieces, so if this was not a Copland piece itself at least I expect the style was similar.
Anyone have a clue who the arrangement was by?
When I was in high school I attended a summer camp on Long Island for performing and visual arts called Usdan. I was often in the chorus, and one staple song was Jerusalem - the lyrics are William Blake's "And did those feet in ancient time", originally set to music as a hymn by Sir Hubert Parry (pipe organ and all).
I am trying to find the particular arrangement that we always sang - at a minimum who did the arrangement, ideally a decent recording of it and/or sheet music. This arrangement was for piano and four vocal parts (or at least it was played on piano). The first verse started with the female voices in unison for the first sentence ("And did those feet...), then the male voices in unison for the second sentence ("And was the holy lamb of God..."), and then broke into four parts (either at "And did the countenance divine..." or "And was Jerusalem builded here..."). A similar pattern was used in the chorus (Women: "Bring me my bow..." Men: "Bring me my spear..." Women: "I will not cease..." All: "Till we have built Jerusalem..."), though I may be misremembering who said which lines. The chorus sand a lot of Aaron Copland pieces, so if this was not a Copland piece itself at least I expect the style was similar.
Anyone have a clue who the arrangement was by?
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Date: 2009-04-04 06:41 am (UTC)From SheetMusicPlus. I checked imslp.org and didn't find any piano + SATB recordings. I tried looking to see if there was any version listed in youtube. The other thing you could do is if you remember what the cover of the music looked like, you might be able to find it at some catalog somewhere. Good luck!