(From the Opera "The Bond")

"There's nothing but a voice inside..."

Music by João Carlos Rocha


Text by Amy Lowell & Robert Frost in adaptation by Walter Wykes
Calmly... ()

June            


There`s nothi - ing but a voice in -

  
   
               
       
 
Piano
(orch. reduction)
                 
      
     
 


5
       
cresc.

J.                
side that tells me how I ought to feel and would feel if it hadn`t

        

        
    

          
       
cresc.

                  
Pno.

  
     
   


   
   
9
         
dim.

J.    
all gone wrong... Hadn't all gone wrong... Hadn't all... gone...

        
       
    
     
  
 
 
   dim.
   
                

Pno.

       
      
  
© João Rocha - December/2018
Lexington/KY - USA
2 Un pochettino più mosso...
"There's nothing but a voice inside..."


(From the Opera "the Bond")

       
13

         
J.

3
Take the lake. I look and look at it. I

      
  

       
 3

    
Pno.

       

  
With urgency, but in tempo
16
                
J.              
3 3

                    
see it`s a fair pret - ty sheet of wa - ter. I


             
3 3
dolce

         
Pno.

     
            

           
20
    
J.          
3
3

 
stand and make my - self re - peat out - loud the ad - vant - ages it has.

                  
           
3
3

                              

Pno.

   

 "There's nothing but a voice inside..."
3
      dolce
(From the Opera "the Bond")


  
24
J.          

    
         So

     
long and narr - ow, like a

             
              
 
                   
Pno.

               

  
      
28
   
Tempo I

J.      
   
deep piece of some old ri - ver cut short at both ends. It lies five miles

                     
  
Pno.
             
          
      
 


32
     
            
J.

straight a - way a - way through the mount - ain notch from

    
          
                 

       
                 
Pno.

  
  

 
  
 
4 "There's nothing but a voice inside..."
(From the Opera "the Bond")

36
            
     
J.

the sink win - dow where I wash the plates... so ma - ny plates... and

      
            
    

     
               
Pno.

    
  
  


39
J.            
all our storms come up to - wards the house,

                 
 
     
      
       
                    
Pno.

     
     


Slowly and ritardando untill the end...

44
J.    
          
drawing the slow waves whit - er and whit - er and whit - er.

                
  
  
   
         
                        
Pno.

    
   
   
