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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.