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Motherless Child

          — "passionate, heartrending and so so poignant"

​Spiritual
for SATB choir
4.75'
​Available from Tim Harbold Music

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COMPOSER NOTES

A haunting melody sung in unison is powerful in performance.  Particularly for spirituals, I want to respect the original tune before adding my own interpretation.  When the harmonies eventually enter in the second verse, I wanted them to feel eerie and ungrounded — a long way from the home  —  before settling into a lush harmonic vocabulary that captures the longing of the text.  I composed this piece to be practical for worship settings, but it can certainly hold the room in a concert setting as well.  There's nothing showy here, and the deep impact comes from the simplicity, and from the slow tempo. The slower the better!

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