2 PEFOMANCE NOTES Ain t-a That Good Nes uses the technique of ord-painting The first verse is I got a cron up in-a that kingdom and the song uses shakes and stacking chords aove the melody The second stanza is roe hich uses the good nes ostinato and some call and response and even a singing ell at the end of the verse to indicate a roed heavenly choir singing The third stanza is harp and it features arpeggiated chords Next is slippers, sometimes translated as shoes, so listen for the alking ass and some ad lis on the melody as if someone as alking and singing to himself The final stanza is I ve got a Savior in-a that kingdom and is a triumphant verse KEVIN McCHESNEY graduated ith highest honors from the University of Colorado at Boulder ith a BMus in Composition and Theory A composer and arranger of handell music, Kevin currently has over 900 titles in print and is one of the very fe musicians ho makes handells a full-time vocation He has on numerous aards for his ork, including inning American Guild of English Handell ingers Composition Contests and effers Composer of the Year Kevin is the handell editor for effers Handell Supply and the ingingword catalog He is also co-founder of the Solo To Ensemle Proect, STEP, http://sonologymusiccom He is Music Director of the one of the premier handell concert groups the Pikes Peak ingers of Colorado Springs and also the Artistic Advisor of the Atlanta Concert ingers His ork ith PP includes the premiere and 13 further performances of his Concerto for Handell Choir and Orchestra and a recording ith orld-renoned cellist Yo-Yo Ma He is in demand throughout the handell orld as a orkshop clinician and festival conductor Previe Only Kevin lives in Colorado Springs, CO, ith his ife Tracy and their cats, Pearl and Aileen Legal Use equires Purchase
# # # # # # # # # # Handells used: 35, 45, 55 optional 3 octave choirs omit notes in 4 octave choirs omit notes in [ ] Staccato notes may e plucked or malleted on the padded tale 4 Brightly (h = ca 80) C C f Ain t-a That Good Nes for 3 5 octaves of Handells* 1 5 Π6 2 Πoptional African-American Spiritual Arranged y KEVIN McCHESNEY (ASCAP) Previe Only Legal Use equires Purchase * To purchase a full-length recording of this piece, go to alfredcom/donloads 7 3 3 Copyright 2016 Candelaorks Music (ASCAP), a division of uilate Music Group, LLC PO Box 3607, Brentood, TN 37024 All ights eserved Printed in USA The copying of this music is prohiited y la and is not covered y CCLI, LicenSing, or OneLicensenet
4 8 12 (I got a cron up in-a that kingdom) F 15 19 P 9 16 # # # # 10 13 20 Π17 21 f 11 14 18 ( ) ( ) Previe Only 22 Legal Use equires Purchase
23 27 31 SK 35 [ ] 24 28 sempre f 32 36 29 25 n n ΠF (I got a roe up in-a that kingdom) P 33 37 26 34 Π30 ( ) Previe Only 38 Legal Use equires Purchase 5
6 39 43 # 47 # # 48 40 44 41 F 45 n # # n n [ ] 000 000 49 42 # 46 # # ( ) 50 Previe Only Legal Use equires Purchase
51 55 63 56 p 52 rit dim SB q = 100 59 4 60 P 4 57 (I got a harp up in-a that kingdom) 61 53 58 64 65 F 62 54 4 4 66 Previe Only Legal Use equires Purchase 7
8 67 71 68 n f n [ ] 69 72 dim 74 75 P 76 73 70 Previe Only 2 2 78 h = 80 Œ F 79 80 ẇ 81 77 rit 82 Œ Legal Use equires Purchase 2 2
83 87 91 ( ) 84 88 92 95 ( ) 96 9 (I got some slippers in-a that kingdom) 85 86 Π89 93 90 94 97 Previe Only Legal Use equires Purchase [ ]
10 98 102 107 111 ΠU 103 112 99 ΠU 108 104 f 100 A it faster (h = ca 88) 109 (I got a Savior in-a that kingdom) [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 105 113 110 106 101 rit 114 Previe Only Legal Use equires Purchase
115 119 123 116 Π120 117 121 124 118 125 122 126 Previe Only Legal Use equires Purchase 11