Partners In Crime Monodrama for Baritone Voice
Text and Music by Ronnie Reshef
q = ca. 80 mp free, deep in thoughts
4 4
Baritone
poco accel.
3 4 I had a broth er
Music starts moving, but still hesitatnt
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
mp
Piano
7
mp
Tempo, q = ca. 96, flowing
He was born
six years
af ter me
on a Sun
day
Pno.
13
4
af
ter
noon
My par ents tried for so long
Pno.
And I
poco
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2
mf
19
want ed
a
broth er
a
part ner in
crime
mp
Pno.
25
It was a
mf
poco
mp
hap
py day
He grew fast
and soon
mp
Pno.
31
join
me
We played catch,
Pno.
mf
4
35
sailed like
pi
rates
flew
4
Pno.
tru ly
mf
like
birds
ran
a round
he could
mp
39
3
p secretive
and ev ery Fri dy af ter din ner
we got choc'
late
mp
Pno.
46
my par ents worked hard
to raise us
And I loved him
my broth er
Pno.
f
mf
53
part
ner in
crime
We were a
f
Pno.
58
mf
4 4 fam
i
ly
4 4 Pno.
tru
mf
4 4
ly
hap
py
my
4
From afar, like a distant memory
62
mp
3 4 One day
we
played hide and
3 4 p
Pno.
3 4 mf
68
seek
I
hid
be hind a huge
tree
And it
Pno.
74
Free in a speech-like way
4
took him twen
ty
min
utes
to
find
me
Then,
he
said,
Pno.
79
he has the best
Pno.
hid ing
4
4
3
spot
so
good that
I
will
nev
er
find
him
mp free, falsetto, as an echo of the brother's words 5 4
84
"You will
nev
er
find
me"
Pno.
Slower, q = ca.66 mp (non-falsetto,but still free)
88
3
4 4 I
closed my eyes
count ed to
fif
ty
and start ed search
ing
4 4 Pno.
4 4 92
free
3 4
4 4
3 4 Af ter twen ty min utes
3 4
4 4 p
Pno.
still search ing
3 4 poco
3 4
97
I was
4 4
3 4 mf
A tempo
3
Af
(b)
Pno.
5
(ยง)
5
(ยง)
5
(b)
ter 5
6
falsetto, as if hearing his own voice from years before 101
3
twen ty more
I yelled that I
(b)
Pno.
give
up
"I
give
(ยง)
5
(ยง)
5
5
mf
f non-falsetto 3
104
Af
(b)
(ยง)
5
ter
3
3
twen ty more
5
I
got
(b)
5
mad
and start ed
(ยง)
f
Pno.
mp falsetto, echoing from the past once more 108
cal
ling him:
(ยง)
Pno.
up"
The 5
(b)
game is o 5
mp (b)
ver!
5
f intense, hysterical
7
112
The game
is
o
ver!
ff
Pno.
115
Pno.
p free
116
3
It start ed to get dark
l.v
Pno.
120
mf
p falsetto, free, echoing from the past once more
3
4 4 and I
yelled and begged that he come out
4 4 Pno.
4 4
"You win.
I
lose"
8 126
A tempo (q = ca.66) Still a little free. p
3
The vil lage car pen ter found him
Af ter
p
Pno.
A little more flow, q = ca.80
131
3 4 two days
Ev ery one was search ing
3 4 ( p)
Pno.
3 4 p
137
He just want ed
to hide
in the vil lage
well
and he
Pno.
(slight port.) 143
Free, recit
fell
Pno.
off the lad
der
as he was de scend ing
In my
9 f
149
4 4 mem o ry
the worst part
was the search
It was sum mer,
but there was an ice cold si lence
4 4 Pno.
4 4 154
A tempo, q = ca.80
p
3 4 in the air
For
two days
his name was
the on ly sound heard
In
loud yells,
in
3 4 p
Pno.
3 4
mf
161
4 4 mild
calls,
and
des
per
ate
3 4 whis pered cries
We
4 4
did n't sleep for two days,
3 4 mf
Pno.
4 4
3 4 f
165
did n't eat a thing, could n't think of a ny
4
a ny thing else 4
Pno.
f
4
p
10
p free, recit
174
3
I think that my par ents' hair turned gray
with in those
Pno.
two
days
And I
Pno.
188
find
Pno.
him
I
p
4
mf
180
lost
my mind
I just want ed
to