Deliver My Soul - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song TitleDeliver My Soul - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):David Baker
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Biblical text
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: God; Aid; Bible; Blues; Christianity; Delivering; Dogs; God; Hebrew Bible; Help; Jazz; Judaism; Life; Lions; Mouths; Oxen; Power; Psalms; Religion; Saving; Scatting; Souls; Swords; Up-tempo; Wild
First LineDeliver my soul (Search)
Average Duration3:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1986 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+22&version=RSV
Larger WorkThrough This Vale of Tears: In Memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr. (Search)
Musical FormModified strophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmp93ri_XQM
Catalog DesignationNo. 5 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerTenor
Premiered ByWilliam Brown (Search)
Commissioned ByWilliam Brown (Search)
NotesText from Psalm 22:19-21 (RSV) (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.halleonard.com/product/41318/through-this-vale-of-tears (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceTenor, string quartet, and piano (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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