The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano
The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano

Matthew Aucoin: The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano

SKU: GSP83673VOC
for low voice and pf Also available as Digital PDF Download (not printable): GSP83673DGT
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Additional Info

  • Composer
    Matthew Aucoin
  • Publisher
    Associated Music Publishers Inc
  • Format
    Vocal Score
  • Language
    English

Description

for baritone, bass-baritone, or bass and piano

Text: the composer (English)

Duration: 55 minutes

The work was commissioned through the generous support of Mashey Bernstein for the American Modern Opera Company

First performance: February 28, 2026, by William Socolof, bass-baritone; Matthew Aucoin, piano

Any audio or audiovisual use of this work must be licensed directly by the Publisher.

Composer note
The Inner Core is a cycle of love songs set to texts by the composer. This edition is for low voice (baritone, bass-baritone, or bass) and piano. The cycle is also available in transpositions for tenor and mezzo-soprano/countertenor.

Performances of the full cycle should follow the order contained in this score. However, performers are also welcome to perform selected songs from the cycle in whichever order they choose.

— Matthew Aucoin

Songs

  1. wareham
  2. not coming back*
  3. little stone
  4. our spirit
  5. wild chokecherry
  6. failed ice
  7. the inner core
  8. acolita
  9. rocky woods
  10. two deer
  11. another life
  12. northern rivers**
  13. and you are not behind air's wall

* In the song “not coming back,” the line “the life that we had a life ago” was written by Nick Pope

** The text of the song “northern rivers” includes excerpts from the book Under the Sea-Wind, by Rachel Carson, copyright © 1941 by Rachel L. Carson, renewed 1969 by Roger Christie. Used by permission of Yake Literary Management LLC

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