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Hymns & Gospel · Sheet music

Were You There sheet music

Sheet music for Were You There (A traditional African American spiritual, first printed in 1899 in William Barton's Old Plantation Hymns). Every arrangement below is a free PDF with its MIDI file.

English name
Were You There
Original name
Were You There
Year
1899
Composer
Traditional
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Every arrangement of Were You There

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Were You There piano sheet music

The melody rises to a held high note in the middle of each verse and then falls away, and the intermediate setting builds everything around that arc. It is slow, spacious and mostly quiet, with long gaps between chords that have to be allowed to ring.