Matthew Aucoin: The Inner Core for Low Voice and piano - Digital (Not Printable)

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PDF for low voice and pf Also available as Printed-to-Order on paper: GSP83673VOC

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Additional Info

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

Description

PDF 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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