Grade 3 | 4:30 | © 2010

To be free, unrestrained, unfettered. At one point in time, the plains of America were dotted with horses running in the open. "Unfettered" recalls that faint memory of horses running in the distance, a symbol of the spirit of America. “Unfettered” refers to being free of shackles or chains, must like the frontier of the old west. The xylophone represents the spirit of the frontier through the sounds of the lone wild horse running across the landscape.

Recorded in 2019 by the St. Cloud University Wind Ensemble and Dr. Catharine Sinon Bushman.