"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...(+)
"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 after the interment when the band
switches to an upbeat "Dixieland" style of playing.
Louis Armstrong was among the first to introduce "When
the Saints Go Marching In" to the wider public in the
1930s.
This is a free sheet music for trumpet and piano
duet.
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