Bonds: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free
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Bonds: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free

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Composer: Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) Editor: John Michael Cooper Format: Choral Octavo Instrumentation: SATB Choir, Soprano Work: I wish I knew how it would feel to be free (1969) Binding: UPC: 680160685912 Size: 6.9 x 10.4 inches Pages: None Description In 1969, soprano Leontyne Price commissioned Bonds to set I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free and three other spirituals for performance with the Rust College A Cappella Choir. The setting reflects Bonds's distinctive approach to the spiritual as a genre, featuring active accompaniments that interact with the main melody. in the first three verses, the solo soprano carries the main theme, but in verse 4 the chorus takes the tune while the soprano adds a soaring melody – a musical imagining of the symbolic image of a bird soaring to the sun and joyously singing a song of freedom.

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