Marching to Zion
This energetic and upbeat setting of the gospel hymn, "We're Marching to Zion" uses a kind of cumulative climatic effect to propel the work forward. Rhythmic motion moves from straight eighth notes to a dotted eighth-sixteenth-eighth pattern, then on to an eighth-two-sixteenths-eighth pattern. Rhythmic drills are given in the performance notes to help accomplish the rhythm requirements mentioned above.