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Matthew Aucoin
POEM FOR VIOLIN Op. 1
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Associated Music Publishers, Inc. New York, NY
Matthew Aucoin
POEM FOR VIOLIN Op. 1
“Poem for Violin” was premiered by Keir GoGwilt at The Signet Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, on March 3, 2012. The revised version was premiered by Keir GoGwilt at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, on December 10, 2015.
Associated Music Publishers, Inc. New York, NY
POEM FOR VIOLIN Matthew Aucoin
I.
II.
The stars fling blinding flame, they hold our gaze, presence
And you are not behind air’s wall
is where they fall and when I say nowhere
and the wind carries no shine of you and where
I mean you’re not here: steady you sailed
we live air is not and death would not be closer
toward me for centuries, the rays of our gazes
and I love you, no atom of us has found nature
locked, but when you reached me you
no atom will I am going to love you
were a great open palm, your greeting took longer than life, now your face will be always away: now love is whose moment of two bent arcs, the long necks of the stars straining to turn unphased around some dark matter
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A note for performers: POEM FOR VIOLIN may be performed either as a piece for solo violin or as a “duet” – for sound and silence, for music and words. Should the performer choose to perform with the accompanying poetic text, a second artist (whose only qualifications are scorereading literacy and a good sense of timing) is required to project the poem, line-by-line, at the points indicated in the score. (For clarity, the lines of the poem appear above the staff in quotes.) This requires a laptop, a projector, and a screen which should be hung behind and above the violinist. The text should be projected using PowerPoint or an equivalent program – though even better would be a simple homemade program which allows the text to be visibly typed out letter by letter. As each new line is projected, the previous lines should remain visible – so, for instance, at the beginning of the poem, the first slide should appear as follows: The stars fling blinding …And the second slide should look like this: The stars fling blinding flame, they hold our gaze, presence …with the position of the first line remaining unchanged.
Permission to reproduce the poetic text in printed programs or by electronic format to facilitate projection as described above is herewith granted by the publisher. Use should be credited with the following language: POEM for VIOLIN Copyright © 2016 by Associated Music Publishers, Inc. (BMI), is used with the express permission of the publisher.
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for Keir GoGwilt
POEM FOR VIOLIN ≥ ≤ 3 Œ œ- œ- b-œ bœ- b-œ≤ ≥ ≤ &4 n˙- #œp Adagio molto
“The stars ing blinding” ritenuto Poco più mosso >
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˙
#œ nœ molto sostenuto
™ Œ œ #œ- 87 nœ nœœ œ œ #œ 58 J R ≈‰ Œ Œ nœ mf
>
“ ame, they hold our gaze, presence” (these grace notes barely brushed...)
3 & 4 nœ nœ
8
b œ bœ Œ
pp
œœ nœ ≈ & R ‰nœ #œ œJ #œ ‰Œ mp
p
mf
œ #œ
Ancora più mosso, searching, poco a poco accel.
nœœ 2 ∑ 3 Œ nœ n œ 4 4 n œ nœ nœ n œ #œ J‰ p sempre p
#œ nœ
nœ
#œ
nœ
“I mean you’re not here:”
#œ >' mp
Più accel. b œ œ™ > n œ œ 2 bœ 3 bœ nœ 2 nœ#œ nœ#œ 9 j #œJ ™ nœj™ 1 nœbœbœ 5 bœ &4 4 nœ #œ 4 #œ 16 bœ ™ 4 8 > 3 3 3 5 >' mf
nœ>
#œ
“is where they fall”
21
28 nœ 3 #œ#œ œ & 4 nœ œ >-
œ n ™ œ 43 œ nœ
>5> > > n œœ #œj œ # œ n œ #œ # n œ n œ n œ ˙™ # œ 44 #œ ˙ #œ #œ ˙ #œ nœj œ 43 #œj n ˙ ™ Œ#œnœ œ œJ œR ≈ 58 nœnœ Œ n ‰ #œ nœ p espr. 5
“and when I say nowhere”
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Matthew Aucoin
2 #œ#œ 4 nœ
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3 # œ #œ nœ 5 16 4
n>œ
#œ nœ bœ 42 nœ
“steady you sailed” Pesante, planting a flag
™ nœ 7 ^ # œ #œ#œ œ 3 8 - 4 n>œ f non troppo
# œ # #œ œ #œ œ œ nœ nœ - #œ- nœ > ' > un po’ più f
“toward me for centuries,”
#œ>
7 8
“the rays of our gazes ” > 5 32 . b œ b œ nœ b œ #œ #œ #œ #œ #œ #œ . 3 #œnœ œ#œ 7 7 nœ œ > nœ œ œ 3 #>œ#œ 2 œ œ œ n œ # œ ™ ™ # œ n œ # œ &8 n œ œ n œ # œ 4 8 8 nœ 16 ‹œ#œ n œ ™ # œ ™ n œ n œ # œ n œn œ- > 3 >> > 5:3 quasi ff
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7 & 16
#>œ #œnœn œ n œ mp
3 b œ <b> œ n œ œ œ b n œ nœ œ œ œ nœ 42 œœ œ bœ 83 nœnœ #œ. nœ œ<#>œ 44 #œnœ œ #>œ-#œnœ œ 43 #œ # œ>>>>
“locked, but when”
#œ#œ 5 œ 4 n œ nœ >-
f come prima, non troppo
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più f
7
Freely > “” œ ™ œÆ # O O œ™ œ Œ
-> > >œ ™ #œ œ œ œ œ œ ˙˙ œœ ™™™™ œœ ˙˙ ™™ œ œ #œ <#>œ #œ#œ œ œœœ R #œ J
103
&
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Æ œœ #>˙ 3
3
3
3
5
nœ n œ nœn œ œ -
&
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5
109
#>˙
mp
p
-œ œ ™ œ œ- œ3 œ
pp
p
˙™ #œ nœ #œ œnœ ™ œ 3 & 4
#˙ ™
p sempre
3
≈ ∑
œ
p
œ™™
œ œ #œ #œ J #œ#œ œ œ
˙
œ œ #œ #˙ J #œ >-œ™ #œ#œ 3
5
“and death would not be closer”
&
<#> œ
#˙ œ œ #-œ . J #œ œ œ. œ >- #œ#œ ‹œ ™ 3
˙
#œ#œ
œ -œ -œ 3
3
5
“no atom will”
poco a poco cresc.
“I am going to love you”
#œ
#œ
#œ #œ
f non troppo
nœ
#œ
nœ
#œ
#œ #œ
4 n>-œ ™™ nnœœ Œ nœ nœ 4
Œ
più f, p leggierissimo, intensely coolly
‰™
œœ œ R
∏∏∏∏∏∏
&
#œ
ritenuto A tempo, moderato
∏∏∏∏∏∏
126
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œ œ
œ œ œ # -œ <#>œ <#> œ . œ. œ # œ <#> œ 3 œ > œ <#>œ > <#>œ 4 nœ ™ #œ œ nœ 3 >-
#œ #œ #œ
& #>-œ ™
poco accento, sempre dolce e sereno
“and I love you, no atom” slowly accumulating momentum, poco accel...
#œ œ œ 4 >- #œ#œ 4 œ™ ‹œ
“of us has found nature”
124
3
“we live air is not”
poco cresc. e dim.
120
-œ -œ bœ œ
Molto adagio
dolce
“and the wind carries no” “shine of you and where” poco ritenuto Fluid, adagio, unhurried
114
p
“behind air’s wall’
3
n˙
3
fff
5
“And you are not”
Adagio non troppo
~
mostly air
poco ritenuto, wrestling the line into place
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