Unavailable

You May Bury Me in the East is currently unavailable

We can no longer provide this arrangement through Sheet Music Stores. The listing stays online so you can learn about the piece and explore alternatives.

Try these next steps

Discover similar sheet music curated for you below.
Search for “You May Bury Me in the East” across our catalog.

About this arrangement

Choral SATB choir, solo Contralto voice or Mezzo-soprano Voice SKU: PR.392031080 Arranged by John Wesley Work, III. Octavo. With Standard notation. Thorpe Music #392-03108. Published by Thorpe Music (PR.392031080). UPC: 680160669097.Thorpe includes a concise biography of John Wesley Work, III, third in a line of distinguished choir directors, musicians, and ethnomusicologists whose mission became the collection and preservation of slave songs and spirituals. Work, III became a leading expert on spirituals, while composing over 100 works of his own. Like his father before him, he became director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group founded in 1871 to eventually perform "slave songs" all around the world, and You May Bury Me in the East was written during his years as director.