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BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND (Song) – Bob DILLAN

Prepared for 4 Cello Soloists or Cello Ensemble by David Johnstone
based on the vocal harmonization of JULIO CÉSAR APOLLO

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PDF 1 – Base Vocal Score
PDF 2 – All Individual Cello Parts

EXAMPLE from the Cello 1 part:

Notes:

“Blowin’ in the Wind” is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962. It was released as a single and included on his album ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ in 1963. It has been described as a protest song and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind” has been described as “impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind”.

In 1966, Stevie Wonder recorded his own version which became a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has been embraced by many liberal churches, and in the 1960s and 1970s it was sung both in Catholic church “folk masses” and as a hymn in Protestant ones. In 1975, the song was included as poetry in a high-school English textbook in Sri Lanka. The textbook caused controversy because it replaced Shakespeare’s work with Dylan’s.

In 1994, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004, it was ranked number 14 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.

The cello ensemble version by David Johnstone should not really be credited to him, but to Júlio César Apollo for a choral version which works perfectly for cellos writing out the parts as they are, and merely adding a few ‘cellistic’ annotations. The first two parts are scored in treble clef, but thumb position is not required (the 7th position is the maximum needed).

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