Preview: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child for String Quartet
Listen
Look
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child for String Quartet
Instant Download
Share
Details
Description
SKU: A0.773270
Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Yoel Epstein. Blues,Folk,Jazz,Spiritual,Traditional. Score and parts. 10 pages. Yoel Epstein #546159. Published by Yoel Epstein (A0.773270).Dear fellow musician,
I wish you the greatest pleasure playing this arrangement of one of the greatest Afro-American spirituals of all times. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, from the days of slavery, recalls the tragedy of children sold away from their parents. It is one of the most heartfelt, tragic melodies I have ever heard. It became a blues standard, sung by every great blues artist ever: Odetta, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Paul Robeson, Marian Andersen – and endless more.
I have played this arrangement with my quartet at weddings, parties, in bars, in retirement homes, and in my living room just for the fun of it. It is one of two sets of arrangements of American folksongs. You might want to purchase the whole collection, here (volume 1) and here (volume 2).
I hope you enjoy playing this as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you enjoy this, you are welcome to try some of my other arrangements. You can see them at www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/yoel-epstein-sheet-music/3001988?ac=1. I have also arranged three songs from the Holocaust, which I arranged and distribute for free on IMSLP. You can find them at https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Ravpapa. If you need arrangements of any of these songs for special combinations of instruments, feel free to contact me at yoelepst@gmail.com, and I will try to accommodate.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).