Preview: The Walls of Jericho
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SKU: A0.1402631
Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Richard Hirsch. Blues,Jazz,Multicultural,Ragtime,Spiritual,World. Individual part. 8 pages. Richard Hirsch #985855. Published by Richard Hirsch (A0.1402631).I offer an arrangement for solo acoustic guitar of the Spiritual “The Battle of Jericho” in a rendition that takes inspiration from Mississippi Delta Ragtime Blues and Django Reinhardt. The thumb pounds out a steady beat of alternating bases to a swing rhythm with the melody played by alternating middle and index fingers running over the top.
There are lots of pull-offs and vibrato-bends in the melody line together with half-tone chord shifts, mutes, and holds (fermatas) that make for a lively and exciting musical rendering of the Old Testament story. However, as opposed to the message of the Old Testament story, I like to think of my arrangement as a message of hope that through music the walls of ignorance separating peoples will “come tumbling down”.
The arrangement is within reach of advanced intermediate students of nylon or steel string acoustic guitar.
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