The Spiritual Form frequently uses the song, following the format: "A" for the first verse "A" for the second verse ("A" = repeating the same melody) "B" follows a chorus and, in general, back to the beginning (with the hood) and repeats the format with different verses. We can cite as an example the so Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) "(in Portuguese," Were you there when they crucified the Lord? "). This form is not a rule not to be broken, therefore found also in spiritual strophic form and looks to a sacred hymn in his style. A melodic rhythm, with text in English, would be an optimistic tone in a song, sung with exultation, or tone of meditation, like a song for spiritual reflection or regret personnel; always print evangelical or meditation can be sung solo, unattended, since blacks had almost a musical instrument, or with an accompaniment of bagpipes. When a church service, a corner may have responsive, with a choir singing the responses of soil during the chorus, or even echoing his own solo singing, as responsory during the whole song. In many interpretations singer sings the verses tenderly, and when you start the chorus intones a posture and slurred diction and more aggressive, with more time on the pitch and attack with more speed. The melody is diatonic well and not tend to modulate or modulate only one step above to color a back end over mind, for example, but modulations do not appear generally in sheet originals - are only details of most modern arrangements . From this arose the pace style gospel music. The style was establishing itself commercially in the Twentieth Century and white composers began to write spiritual too. The scenarios for the period of the conquest of the West in which slaves lived, served as inspiration for many Broadway musicals such as "Oklahoma" from (Rodgers and Hammerstein), (1943), "Showboat" of (Jerome Kern and Hammerstein) ( 1927), in which the plots are in the states gave the new frontier to the West, Kansas, Oklahoma and along the southern U.S., on the Mississippi River. The very theme song from the musical Oklahoma develops responsory style, switching voices each phrase and Country has the pace of the old American West. In "Showboat" both blacks and whites attending the play, a musical racially integrated, including a chorus of blacks and whites in another chorus. The song Black Spiritual, Ol 'Man River, was written by Jerome Kern for this musical, Showboat. they ate chorizo and potatoes cooked only once a day. No more eating nothing like singing songs had revolted and hence was born ragtime.
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