Edition: Brass Quintet

Description: Medium

Publisher: Walrus Music Publishing

Song featured in OSCAR Winning Best Picture, "12 YEARS A SLAVE". One of the Very First Spirituals, first published in 1865. JORDAN was a slave code word for the OHIO RIVER. (If you got across..you were FREE.) Favorite tune with Gospel Quartets. Recorded by many artists: Mahalia Jackson, Elvis. This is a Gentle Swing Orchestration for Brass. Composition is in a "CALL and Response"form, as are many Spirituals. Tpt. 1, top note "A". Scored for: 2 Bb Trumpets, French Horn, Trombone, & Tuba, Complete Transposed Score. Medium.

Full Score
2 Trumpets
Horn in F
Trombone
Tuba

Trumpet 1: A5