Name: Ugandan National Anthem for String Orchestra (arr. Keith Terrett) by Keith Terrett Orchestra Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Keith Terrett
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Ugandan National Anthem for String Orchestra (arr. Keith Terrett)
by Keith Terrett String Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Ugandan National Anthem for String Orchestra (arr. Keith Terrett)

Artist Keith Terrett

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Keith Terrett

Composer George Kakoma

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 8

Arrangement Orchestra

Publisher Keith Terrett

Level 3

Product ID 1728858

Genre Traditional Festival Instructional Contest Patriotic Historic

Performance Group String Orchestra

Product Description

Before independence in 1962, a committee was formed to choose Ugandas national symbols. A contest was held to determine the national anthem; the criterion for the entrants was that the compositions had to be short, original, solemn, praising and looking forward to the future. Despite having recieved several compositions, none were deemed suitable. The head of the committee then asked George Kakoma, a graduate of Trinity College of Music and Durham University in London, to compose an anthem. Kakoma came up with the anthem within a day and it was declared the winner in July of that year, a few months before independence; the short length of the work (it is only nine measures in length, one of the shortest national anthems in the world) was one of the biggest advantages it had in being selected.

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