To Right Our Wrongs FLEX - Full score

PERFORMANCE NOTES
-Some of the transposed copies split into octaves in consideration of a particular instrument's idiomatic capabilities. If a particular
staff where this occurs can be doubled (ex: if you have a flute and oboe player available to play on Part I), have each of the players
divide into the indicated octaves wherever possible.
-Cue-sized notes are optional passages the players may choose to perform.
-At measures 40 and 143, Part II performs excerpts of The Star-Spangled Banner as part of the composer's conceptual ideas for the
original version of this work (these passages were originally written for solo muted trumpet). These two solos were intended to be
played off-stage if possible. For this arrangement, and if Part II can be doubled, the composer recommends that the solos still be
played off-stage if possible, regardless of the instrument these solos are assigned to for performance.
-CHOIR (if used): There is a single baritone part with a higher tessitura written for younger singers, and tenor and bass parts with
appropriate tessituras for older singers. The composer recommends that one or the other be used depending on the age of the
performers. In either case, the same soprano and alto parts can be used.
-Sus. Cym., China Cym. (if either or both are used): Mallets and sticks are required. When using sticks, the parts specify to either
strike the cymbals with the bead (the head) or the shaft (the middle) of the sticks. For the Sus. Cym. part, this instruction applies to
both the edge and the bell/dome of the cymbal.
And the rocket's red glare
the bombs bursting in air
gave proof through the night
that our flag---
Stony the road we trod,
bitter the chast'ning rod
felt in the days when hope
unborn had died;
yet with a steady beat,
have not our weary feet
come to the place for which
our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way
that with tears have been watered
we have come treading our path
through the blood of the slaughtered
gloomy past, 'til now we stand
at last where the white gleam
of our bright star is cast
Lift ev'ry voice and sing
'till earth and heaven ring
ring with the harmonies of liberty
let our rejoicing rise
high as the list'ning skies
let it resound round as the rolling sea.
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--Text by Francis Scott Key and James Weldon Johnson