The chanted sermon of the black preacher Spencer, Jon Michael Additional Author mixed material bibliography New York Greenwood Press 1988 monographic en English

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The first and only collection of its kind, Sacred Symphony contains 100 transcriptions of muscial excerpts from the chanted sermons of contemporary black preachers. In his introduction to the pieces that follow, author John Michael Spencer argues that there is an observable correlation between the chanted sermons of today's black preachers and the antebellum spiritual. He shows that the pieces collected here, each of which spontaneously evolved during the course of a sermon or prayer service, are themselves spirituals containing similar musical components--melody, rhythm, call and response, counterpoint, harmony, form, and improvisation. 253313259992 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 253 Spe s E08000747 Non Fiction 253 Spe s Sacred_symphony.png 26439 2014-08-25 13:57:12 2025-10-30 16:49:12 machine generated