Wade In The Water

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Across
  1. 3. Baptist minister who composed “Beautiful River”
  2. 4. This king was the ninth-century founder of the British navy
  3. 6. This nation adopted “La Marseillaise” as its anthem in 1795
  4. 7. State where historians estimate that as many as 25,000 “plain folk” attended a camp meeting at Cane Ridge in 1801
  5. 11. The classical composer of “At the River”
  6. 12. These southerners seemed oblivious to the coded instructions for escape that were communicated in many of the spirituals
  7. 13. The The Qu’ran teaches followers of this religion to wash their hands and faces before offering the daily prayers
  8. 15. River often referred to as a metaphor for baptism
  9. 17. What God will do to the water in the song, “Wade in the Water”
  10. 18. The type of rhythm that Copland doubles in his version of “At the River”
  11. 19. This metaphorical ship is the “Gem of the Ocean” in a song about American naval power
  12. 20. These were discovered, along with chains, when Fisk University students were digging the foundation for a new building
  13. 23. Multiple changing pitches stretched out over one syllable of the text
  14. 24. The name of the singers at Fisk University that popularized spirituals
Down
  1. 1. These range from pianissimo to fortissimo in Copland’s arrangement of “At the River”
  2. 2. Thomas Arne’s song asks this country to “Rule the Waves”
  3. 5. This water ritual is generally viewed as a form of “admission” to Christianity
  4. 6. University whose choir popularized the choral singing of spirituals
  5. 8. The metaphorical railroad that took runaway slaves to safety
  6. 9. The current director of the choir at Fisk University
  7. 10. This was a widely recognized pseudonym for a rescuer along the Underground Railroad
  8. 14. How the Fisk University Jubilee Singers crossed the Atlantic
  9. 16. Where Lowry was living when he published “Beautiful River,” where Henry Ward Beecher helped popularize the Fisk University singers when they performed at his church, and where composer Aaron Copland was born (although the curriculum guide does not mention this fact).
  10. 21. The Jordan River is a symbol of this faith
  11. 22. Another name for the camp meetings associated with the “Second Awakening”