Chamber Music Bass, Djembe, Piano

SKU: PR.141400980

Composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Stanley Moss, Ubuntu. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 12+4 pages. Duration 6 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #141-40098. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.141400980).

ISBN 9781491112953. UPC: 680160671229. 9 x 12 inches. Text: Stanley Moss. Stanley Moss, Ubuntu.

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.

Piano - Intermediate

SKU: SB.SBMP-1693

Composed by Jacob Narverud. Classical. Octavo. 16 pages. Santa Barbara Music Publishing #SBMP1693. Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing (SB.SBMP-1693).

UPC: 000308159653.

Ever clever, composer Narverud came up with a highly rhythmic celebratory composition. The title translates “We are one”, the theme being that all human beings have much in common. The energetic djembe sets the tone, the piano adds its own rhythmic design, and the singers deliver the message, at times sounding as though there should be a campfire at the center of their circle. This BEST SELLER is great fun, a profound message, and an intriguing piece. See composer notes below for pronunciation.