This composition will be about the daily life of a slave. From the time they wake up to the time they go to the field. The piece should last about two to three minutes long. The beats that are going to be included are clapping, stomping and humming and the beats on the cabin. The repetition will be in the beats listed above. Other viewpoints include duration and kinesthetic response. The actions will be the stomping in a single filed line and bending to reach down and get the cotton to then place it into their sacks. There will be no dialogue. This composition will require 24 people. Everything should be pretty much in unison and the mood is a sad one. Before the sun rises, all the overseers on the plantation go to each of the four cabins (there are five people in each) and in unison bang on the side of the cabin. The slaves then all get in a single file line, reach down with their left hand to put their sack onto their right side, and in unison step forward twice and then turn to the left. The line leader will then start with his left foot to begin their march. When he stomps everyone in the line follows to stomp with his or her right foot. Everyone will continue to do this in a straight line until they reach the cotton fields. From this line five people will march into each row. Before this happens, the line leader from the beginning will start a hum, and everyone else will repeat him. They continue this hum and begin to step and clap into the row. Until the person in the front of each line gets to the end of the row, everyone will continue to do this in unison for about fifteen seconds (the step and clap will be a slow movement). Everyone will turn to their right, bend down reach with their left, pick the cotton and place it into their sacks on their right side. Then everyone will move down to the next plant after everyone has done this (should be done in unison). This will be taking place while everyone is humming (the humming should not stop until the end). Once this step gets repeated for thirty seconds the composition is over.
