86 Billy’s Farewell Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray! BILLY BUDD Words by E.M. FORSTER and ERIC CROZI
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Billy’s Farewell Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray! BILLY BUDD
Words by E.M. FORSTER and ERIC CROZIER
Slowly moving e = 72-88
pp
pp
Music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
(piccolo solo)
3
3
3
ppp (rubato)
3
3
3 3 3
4
ppp
pp
3
3
3
8
BILLY: pp
Look!
a tempo
pp
12
pp
3
3
3
3
It
tips
3 ppp
pp
3
Through the port comes the moon - shine a - stray!
poco
3
(rall.)
the guard’s cut - lass and
3
sil - vers this nook;
( pp )
© Copyright 1951, 1952 by Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd Revised version © Copyright 1961, 1977 by Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd
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87
15
cresc.
3 But
3
’twill die
pp
day.
Ay,
ay,
all
up;
22
morn - ing,
em
-
pty stom - ach, now,
3
4
I must up
pp
too
ne - ver would it
do.
Ear - ly in the
On an
3
They’ll give me
4
più f
3
3
pp
Bil - ly’s last
3
ppp
of
dawn - ing
and
the
p espr.
a - loft from be - low.
is
in
espr.
18
25
p
a
4
nib - ble - bit
of
dim.
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4
28
bis - cuit ere
I
go.
Sure,
a
mess - mate will
reach me
pp
cup;
But turn
-
way
3
3
ppp
3
3
ing, turn
From the hoist and the be - lay.
37
No pipe
to those
Hea - ven knows who
ppp
ing, turn - ing heads a -
will have the run - ning of me up!
3
hal - yards—
ppp (words! – parlando)
4
-
ppp
4
part - ing
the last
31
34
f
8va f
3
lively
3
3
3
3
pp
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40
pp
But ain’t
it all
sham?
3
89
A blur’s
in my
eyes;
43
it
am.
ppp
46
pp
plank,
So I’ll shake
a friend - ly
49
3
3
cresc.
pp
It
is dead then I’ll
hand ere I
dim.
pp
But no!
sink.
to stand by the
I
But Don -ald he has prom -ised
3 3 3
is dream - ing that
3
pp espr.
4
no!
più p
be, come to think.
They’ll
3 3 3 ppp
3
3
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52
lash
me in ham - mock,
3 drop
me deep,
più pp
più p
3
3
ancora più p
55
Fa - thoms down, fa - thoms—
how I’ll dream fast
a - sleep.
ppp
58
pppp
dolce pppp
sempre pp
4 4
61
I’m sleep - y
and
the
roll
me
o
-
ver
fair.
oo
-
zy weeds
ppp
a - bout
I feel it steal - ing now;
me
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3 3 3 3 3 ppp twist.
Very lively q = 144
68
And
73
fare - well
legato
optional ending
to
ye,
old
Rights
o’
Man!
3 3
with ped.
your
joys
no
more.
Fare
p
Ne - ver
78
[long pause]
*
91
world!
well
to
this
grand
rough
Ne
-
-
ver
more
ship - mates,
no
more
mf *Dansker’s exchange with Billy is cut in this solo edition of the scene.
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sea,
No
83
p
down
from the heights
But I’ve sight - ed
a
sail
in
to
the
depths.
look - ing
88
the
storm,
93
far - shin - ing
sail
The
that’s not
cresc.
fate,
And
cresc.
mf
98
I’m
con
f
-
ten -
fp
ted,
freely
3
I’ve seen where she’s
bound
for.
pp
a tempo
p
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cresc.
103
She
has
a
land
of
her
own
107
cresc.
freely
e
-
ver.
a tempo
113
hanged,
p
or
be
I’m
weeds.
-
Don’t
- ing
for
-
got
-
ten
for
mat - ter now
and
caught
cresc.
chor
be - ing
ppp
ted.
-
in
the
cresc.
Don’t
an
93
con - ten
f
118
pp
where she’ll
fp
Oh,
mat
-
ter
/0
now.
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/0 /0
94
broadly
/0
122
ff
/0
I’m
strong,
ff
/0
128
p
strong
I
know
pp
that’s e - nough,
142
ppp
rall.
all,
all,
e
-
dim.
4
and that’s e - nough,
ppp
pp
nough.
ppp
3
all,
3 3
strong,
mf
stay
Rather lively (e)
I’ll
p
and
pp
p
that’s
ppp
poco a poco più lento
pp
it,
and that’s
p
p
mf
and
getting slower and slower
135
stay
pp
I’ll
p
sempre f
3 pp 3
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