Ubuntu (Set of Score and Parts)

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

The opening of Stanley Moss’s poem unfurls the spirit captured in Zwilich’s musical setting for Bass Voice, Djembe (African drum), and Piano: “I salute a word, I stand up and give it my chair, because this one Zulu word, ubuntu, holds what English takes seven to say: ‘the essential dignity of every human being.’ I give my hand to ubuntu —” Zwilich’s six-minute work proudly declaims Moss’s message, using a djembe to add African-inspired color and punctuation to the musical whole.

Publisher: Theodore Presser Company

Duration: 6:00

Instrumentation: Bass, Piano, Djembe

Pages: 12+4

Format: Set of Score and Parts

UPC: 680160671229

ISBN: 9781491112953

Item No: 141-40098