All night, all day : a child's first book of African-American spirituals / selected and illustrated by Ashley Bryan ; musical arrangements by David Manning Thomas.

Format
Musical score
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Atheneum, 1991.
Description
1 score (48 p.) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

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    Summary note
    A selection of twenty spirituals, that distinctive music from the time of slavery. Includes piano accompaniment and guitar chords.
    Notes
    • For voice and piano.
    • Includes chord symbols.
    • CTSN copy: Ashley Bryan archive of 10 books; inscribed and signed; with related ephemera i.e. letters, cards, press release, etc.
    • CTSN copy: Signed and inscribed on f. flyleaf: For Edith / All Night All Day / Singing / for an All Day All Night Good Friend! / Peace Joy Love / Ashley Bryan / Islesford, Maine / Spring 1991.
    • CTSN copy: 2 blank cards and 2 biographical pamphlets in accompanying 4-flap.
    Binding note
    Pub. navy blind stamped pictorial bds with cloth spine and original color-printed pictorial d.j. with yellow endpapers.
    Contents
    • All night, all day
    • Chatter with the angels
    • Who's that a-comin' over yonder
    • Somebody's knocking at your door
    • This little light of mine
    • Behold that star
    • I'm a-going to eat at the welcome table
    • O when the saints go marching in
    • I stood on the River of Jordan
    • Get on board
    • Peter, go ring the bells
    • He's got the whole world in his hands
    • Wade in the water
    • There's no hiding place
    • The rocks and the mountains
    • I'm gonna sing
    • Open the window, Noah
    • O won't you sit down
    • Now let me fly
    • Great big stars.
    ISBN
    • 0689316623
    • 9780689316623
    LCCN
    90753145
    OCLC
    22278945
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