Course curriculum

  • 1

    Basic Engagement for Africana Music

    • SOME PERFORMANCE PRINCIPALS THAT DEFINE THE GOSPEL SOUND

    • Some Thoughts on Why We Must Overcome Shame and Discomfort in the Performance of Early Africana Music

    • THE SOUNDS THAT INFORMED BLACK GOSPEL MUSIC

    • A basic introduction to African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

    • Basic Africana words for Early Engagement

    • The Emancipation of Negro Music by R. Nathaniel Dett
  • 2

    Gospel Warmups

    • #Warmuppraise - "I-E-A-O-U"

    • #Warmuppraise - "Amen"

    • #Warmuppraise - "Marvelous Things"

    • #Warmuppraise - Marvelous Things (SATB)

    • #Warmuppraise - "I Will Sing Praises" (Smallwood)
  • 3

    Lily in the Valley

    • LILY IN THE VALLEY
  • 4

    DAT MORNIN' TRAIN

    • Dat Mornin' Train (with short lesson on hymn choirs)
  • 5

    Ah Got Shoes

    • Howard Thurman's Heaven! Heaven! (Chapter 3 of The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death)

    • Ah Got Shoes (Downloadable Audio Files & Comprehensive Word Sheet)

    • Ah Got Shoes (Please do NOT share. Thank you!)
  • 6

    I SHALL WEAR A CROWN (Thomas Whitfield)

    • About Thomas Whitfield

    • The Whitfield Sound: UNEARTHING FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY GOSPEL MUSIC (Waddles, B)

    • I SHALL WEAR A CROWN (tracks, cover recordings)

    • Downloadable Rehearsal FIles

    • Elmhurst Performance Example

    • Further Listening (Whitfield Hits)
  • 7

    STAY CONNECTED (Jackie McCullough)

    • Downloadable Tracks