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The Spiritual was written for a concert commemorating Amnesty International’s 40th anniversary. It uses the simplicity and heavy work rhythms of spirituals to deliver a powerful plea for freedom. All the spiritual melodies are new, the words based on fragments of existing spirituals. At the heart of the piece, a reader reads a passage from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845, while the choir and soloists keen. The atmosphere at the end is one of ecstatic and optimistic exhaustion after a long ride of powerful emotion.
 
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[[Category:Sheet music]][[Category:Sacred music]][[Category:Cantatas]][[Category:SATB]][[Category:Modern music]]
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Editor: Oliver Barton (added 2003-04-15).   Score information: A4, 24 pages, 748 kbytes   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: full score, written for 40th aniversary of Amnesty International.

General Information

Title: Spiritual for Freedom, A
Composer: Oliver Barton

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Cantatas
Language: English
Instruments: organ
Published:

Description:

The Spiritual was written for a concert commemorating Amnesty International’s 40th anniversary. It uses the simplicity and heavy work rhythms of spirituals to deliver a powerful plea for freedom. All the spiritual melodies are new, the words based on fragments of existing spirituals. At the heart of the piece, a reader reads a passage from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845, while the choir and soloists keen. The atmosphere at the end is one of ecstatic and optimistic exhaustion after a long ride of powerful emotion.

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