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Motherless Child is a setting for wind band originally composed as the second movement of Spiritual Symphony. The work explores the emotions of a slave's state of mind serving as both a scherzo-like movement for the Symphony, as well as a lament. The opening material establishes a sense of anxiety and disorientation. The music here paints the scene of someone forcefully taken from their home and brought to a new country in chains -- ...