• Text Source: Shaker
• Tune Source: Shaker
• Arranger: Carol McClure
• Worship Use: General
• Vocal Part(s): Two-part
• Vocal Range: Pt. I, a-g’; Pt. II, e-e’
• Key: A minor
• Meter: 6/8
• Accompanying Instrument: Organ (or piano) OR can be performed a cappella

Target Age Group: Grades 3-6

Description: Followers of the Lamb is an appealing anthem, ideal for a baptismal service, appropriate for the seasons after Epipany or for Pentecost/Trinity, or for a Spring concert. The text is straightforward and easily memorized by choristers. One of six Shaker source anthems offered in the Viva Voce 2011-2012 curriculum, this anthem provides an opportunity to work on tuning intervals between the two parts.

Anthem Warm-Ups

• bars 7-8: Part II, pitch accuracy
• random phrases, sung a cappella: staccato singing of parts for pitch accuracy

Teaching Points

• Rhythm/Meter: Sustaining a dance-like momentum in 6/8 time
• Vocal Production: Sustaining a lovely unified tone on Treble I (e’) in bars 1-8
• Musical Understanding: Performing 4-bar melodic/rhythmic phrases; shaping phrases
• Intervallic Tuning: Tuning harmonic intervals between the two parts
• Music History: Learning about early Shaker tunes and texts