Composer | Traditional | ||
Instrumentation | Flute and Piano | ||
Sheet central | When the Saints Go Marching In (81 sheet music) 1 other version | ||
Style | Jazz | ||
Publisher | Lewis, Alastair | ||
Copyright | Copyright © 2014 Alastair Lewis | ||
Added by alastair-lewis, 30 Jan 2014
"When the Saints Go Marching In" is an Amercian gospel
hymn. The song is sometimes still performed as a slow
tempo spiritual, however since the middle of the 20th
century is has increasingly been popular as a "hot"
jazz number. This song is particularly associated with
the home of Jazz, New Orleans. In this city the song is
traditionally used as a funeral march at "Jazz
funerals" - the band plays the tune as a slow lamentful
dirge while accompanying the coffin to the cemetery,
this all changes a...(+)
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