Get on Board

Composer: STILL, William Grant
  • Still’s short chamber work Get on Board is scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, and string quartet.1
  • Read more about the source spiritual, Get on Board (also known as The Gospel Train).
  • Still arranged this spiritual several times: it appears in his Folk Suite for Band (1966 or 1963)2 and Spirituals: A Medly (c. 1927), a choral work.3

Sources

  1. “Works for String Quartet, Mixed Chamber Group, and Voice Chamber Group,” William Grant Still Music, accessed May 19, 2022, http://www.williamgrantstillmusic.com/WorksforStringQuartetMixedChamberGroupVoiceChamberGroup.htm#Get%20on%20Board.
  2. Catherine Parsons Smith, William Grant Still (American Composers) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008), 104
  3. “William Grant Still (1895-1978),” Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music, accessed May 19, 2022, http://www.pytheasmusic.org/still.html.

Cut IDs

21368