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Who Will Bow and Bend: bass part

The bass part of Who Will Bow and Bend in C, from F2 to F3. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Holds the roots on "oo" nearly nine tenths of the time, in long low notes, most often on C, within one octave: down to its low F under the second "Who" of the first strain and under "reeling," in the third, and up to the F above it under the end of "freedom," and "From the" in the first strain, the end of "working." in the second, and "I will have" and the "I will" after it in the third.

Range
F2 to F3
Key
C
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About Who Will Bow and Bend

Words: Shaker song (Mary Hazzard's songbook, about 1847)

Tune: Shaker song (Mary Hazzard's songbook, about 1847)

Who Will Bow and Bend is a Shaker song in three strains: "Who will bow and bend like a willow, Who will turn and twist and reel". It is copied in Mary Hazzard's manuscript songbook, begun in 1847, with no title, place, giver or date; two songs away on each side are songs signed by Canterbury's Second Family and dated "Feb 22nd 1847" and "April 1847". Hazzard wrote "Who will turn and twist and real"; we sing "reel". Our tune and words are read from her page, written in the Shakers' notation of letters, in C, with every pitch as written, and the four parts are our own. This is all three strains, each sung twice as the book marks it, for 2 to 4 singers. Courtesy Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.

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