Farah (Joy) (2023) Music by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) Words by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Instrumentation: voice (range: Bb4 to Bb6) & piano
This is a piano vocal reduction of the orchestral work by the same title.
Length: 11 mins
PDF Price: $20
PDF sheet music will be delivered a few minutes after making payment.
COMPOSER’S NOTE:
Working with the brilliant librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph , we both agreed we wanted to center joy. After years of creating work that centered protest (with a clenched fist and determined mind) , we felt it was time to create work that centered our proclamations for the people and places that we love — and to do this with an open hand and a determined heart. Farah means ‘joy' in Arabic, and the very first words of Bamuthi’s libretto speaks to us directly: "Remember me a Black girl named for Joy, oriented forward toward an eastern star. "
-DBR
Instrumentation: voice (range: Bb4 to Bb6) & piano
This is a piano vocal reduction of the orchestral work by the same title.
Length: 11 mins
PDF Price: $20
PDF sheet music will be delivered a few minutes after making payment.
COMPOSER’S NOTE:
Working with the brilliant librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph , we both agreed we wanted to center joy. After years of creating work that centered protest (with a clenched fist and determined mind) , we felt it was time to create work that centered our proclamations for the people and places that we love — and to do this with an open hand and a determined heart. Farah means ‘joy' in Arabic, and the very first words of Bamuthi’s libretto speaks to us directly: "Remember me a Black girl named for Joy, oriented forward toward an eastern star. "
-DBR
Instrumentation: voice (range: Bb4 to Bb6) & piano
This is a piano vocal reduction of the orchestral work by the same title.
Length: 11 mins
PDF Price: $20
PDF sheet music will be delivered a few minutes after making payment.
COMPOSER’S NOTE:
Working with the brilliant librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph , we both agreed we wanted to center joy. After years of creating work that centered protest (with a clenched fist and determined mind) , we felt it was time to create work that centered our proclamations for the people and places that we love — and to do this with an open hand and a determined heart. Farah means ‘joy' in Arabic, and the very first words of Bamuthi’s libretto speaks to us directly: "Remember me a Black girl named for Joy, oriented forward toward an eastern star. "
-DBR