Tippett: A Child of Our Time Piano Reduction Type of strings_BioCarbon® Heavy duty construction Instrument_Bass Recorder Heavy duty construction Hear this instrument: Tippett's use of the spiritual as a contemporary equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of the Bach settings draws his audience more closely into the drama through the spirituals' 'unique verbal and musical metaphor' For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah which share with this contemporary morality the subject of the death of an individual set against the universal background of human suffering