“Lift Every Voice” has three stanzas. The text uses alliteration, similes and metaphors. The music employs word painting; for example, the melody reaches its highest note on “rise” in the ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” begins on a powerful low note, then steadily rises in rhythm, spanning the pain and promise of Black history, picking up pace in the stanzas until its final crescend ...

R&B star Ledisi performed on one of the biggest stages in her Grammy-winning career with a compelling live rendition of "Lift Every Voice ... full-bodied voice sustaining the note on the last ...

Editor’s note: Our previous reporting on “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” its lyrics and how it became the Black national anthem has been updated to reflect events at the 2023 Super Bowl.

This time, the guest musician, played the introduction of the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and created ... Banner,” extending the horn’s notes for dramatic effect.

These variations are inspired by the song “Lift Every Voice and ... with 16th-note embellishments in the right hand that weave above and below the melody line. This section could be potentially ...

His part of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” reflects that education and experience. The composition was done in A flat major, as CNN notes it’s a “popular expressive key seen a lot in spiritua ...

And in recent years, the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has become part ... President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday,” the NAACP notes. The song gained prominence in the early 20th century ...

“Lift every voice and sing,” she belted, skillfully adding agile runs to various notes, “Till earth and heaven ring/ Ring with the harmonies of liberty.” “Lift Every Voice and Sing ...