Bury Me in a Free Land (from the Emancipation Oratorio)

•  Full Score and 4-7 singers – $48.00
•  Full Score and 8-11 singers – $56.00
•  Full Score and 12-15 singers – $64.00
•  Full Score and 16-19 singers – $72.00
•  Full Score and 20-29 singers – $80.00
•  Full Score and 30+ – $100.00

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$2 per singer + $40 for accompaniment

This includes a manuscript of the full score, choral score, strings section score, and individual scores for each accompaniment part.

“Bury Me in a Free Land” is a powerful work for women’s voices and string quartet, set to a powerful yet simple text by abolitionist Frances Harper, expressing a driving and earnest desire not to end life and be buried in a land of slavery. The lyrical sounds of treble voices mix with a pizzicato string quartet, which translates the West African tradition of layered rhythms of hand drums, bells and shakers.

“The Emancipation Oratorio” commemorated the 150th anniversary the abolition of slavery by act of Congress, combining texts and music styles from West Africa, Europe and the US.

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