"Going Home" is not a spiritual but rather a melody written in the Style of a spiritual by Dvorak, used in his Symphony No. 9. He and H.T. Burleigh met at the National Conservatory in NYC when Dvorak was the director and Burleigh a student. Burleigh spent many hours singing spirituals to Dvorak, whom he had learned from his grandfather, a former slave. This is why Dvorak was able to capture the true essence of the spiritual in this melody. William Arms Fisher arr. it for voice and piano.
It's not clear whether or not the song was originally a spiritual or if it was Dvořák's original composition. What IS known, however, since its use in the 9th Symphony (as correctly pointed out below), it was taken by Americans to be a spiritual, and thus BECAME one. -According to Richard Taruskin
Some of HT Burleigh's sheet music can be found on google books - check it out. I found a few collections there.
afsloan 2 weeks ago
PLEASE! CAN ANYONE DIRECT ME TO THIS SHEET MUSIC!? I MUST OWN IT! THIS EXACT ARRANGEMENT! :D
m42288 4 months ago
:'(
imperiumdiaboli 8 months ago
@scutecrone it's called the snkae pit from 1948 with olivia de haviland. This movie was where she won her first Oscar.
RotnPineapplesCinema 8 months ago
Bravo! Cheers from Brazil
PiscaCPT 9 months ago
beautiful
chrissoftail 1 year ago
"Going Home" is not a spiritual but rather a melody written in the Style of a spiritual by Dvorak, used in his Symphony No. 9. He and H.T. Burleigh met at the National Conservatory in NYC when Dvorak was the director and Burleigh a student. Burleigh spent many hours singing spirituals to Dvorak, whom he had learned from his grandfather, a former slave. This is why Dvorak was able to capture the true essence of the spiritual in this melody. William Arms Fisher arr. it for voice and piano.
bartoloio 1 year ago
This tune is also the theme from a movie called "Four Friends" from 1981.
454something 1 year ago
It's not clear whether or not the song was originally a spiritual or if it was Dvořák's original composition. What IS known, however, since its use in the 9th Symphony (as correctly pointed out below), it was taken by Americans to be a spiritual, and thus BECAME one. -According to Richard Taruskin
Grandmasterbirch 1 year ago
This is lovely, I believe I herd this on the movie Amistad. It's just breath taking !!
mdani06 1 year ago