Starbuck's Soliloquy or the Musket Scene

Gene Scheer from Moby-Dick

Jake Heggiec
Steady = ca. 66
Starbuck knocks on Ahab's door. mf free
Starbuck
3
Cap-tain A hab? Imust speak with you.

Piano «
b
PP

4
He opens the door. Ahab is asleep.

Sir?

PP

Ah. He is

mp
b

poco rit. =

sleep-ing.

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 Starbuck's Soliloquy or the Musket Scene

SlowerJ = 100
3

He would have shot me.

16

There's the ver y mus keet he point ed at me.

poco r t .
9

Aye. And pow-der in the pan.

Load-edP-

23 a tempo He takes the musket of the wal.

 Starbuck's Soliloquy or the Musket Scene

26 Faster= 112

3
He would have killed me

PP

28

with the ver y thing in my-

30

hands. Aye.- Would he

E
3

32

kill all his crew

fain

3 3
 My oul SWears this ship will

36 accel.

CoTne to dead
y

(accel.) Faster.= 126

38

harm.. What cares A hab?

mf cresc.

3 3

12

dim.
cresc.
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46
slowing P

(dim.)

= 100
51

there no oth-er way? No law ful_ way? Make him

(
PP

54

pris-on e r to be tak en home?

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Wrest the old man's

liv ing power
from his own_
b

mp

accel.
b0
D2"

hands? On ly a fool would try it.-

64
mf Steady

The men have vowed

thy

(
mp
f
 Starbuck's Soliloquy or the Musket Scene

rit.
69

are
vows. Aye. Now all of us

Ahab cries in his sleep like a child

havng a nightmare or in paLn.
73
Faster ( = 126)
AHAB
mp

Ah

A habs..

fp

PP

I f performed without a tenor, pianist should play the notes in Ahab's part.
 Starbuck's Soliloquy or the Musket Scene

PPP
81 (Ahab)

Oh

B0
Slower (= 80)

is it mur - der_ to strike a would be mur-der-er.

Lord,

90 rit.

in his bed?

ba
 Starbuck's Soliloquy or the Musket Scene
9
Slower = ca. 60
93
molto espr.

Oh Lord, what shall do?

PP colla voce

95
mp

One touch and Star buck may sur Vive

UO

97 mt
be

To see his wife and child a gain.

be

mp

99

them a live.
Re turn

bo

bo
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101 A little faster

Oh, Mar y ! _ Oh, my

colla voce

104

boy! Great God, where art Thou_

106 rit.

now?.