Aku, Matthew Kurniawan | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

Aku [level: Difficult]
Matthew Kurniawan: Bio and other works | Nicole Lamartine Choral Series

RELEASED: August 2026

voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP1891 | duration: 2’25” | price: $2.90
accompaniment: a cappella

Filled with passion, determination, and unwavering spirit, this powerful setting captures the vitality of this iconic poem, often embraced as a call for Indonesian independence. Challenging yet deeply rewarding, it is an exciting choice for advanced collegiate Tenor-Bass ensembles. A helpful piano reduction is included.

performance by: CWU Chamber Choir - Nicole Lamartine, conductor [© all rights reserved]

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Translation

If my time should come
I'd like no one to entice me
Not even you
No need for those sobs and cries

I am but a wild animal
Cut from its kind
Though bullets should pierce my skin
I shall still strike and march forth

Wounds and poison shall I take aflee
Aflee

'Til the pain and pang should dissapear
And I should care even less
I want to live for another thousand years!

Translation by Urip Hudiono

Text by Chairil Anwar

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Aku choral track bundle contains a part dominant track for each voice part, a balanced voices track, and an accompaniment track if the work is not a cappella (the accompaniment is also included with the part dominant and balanced voices track). Get more information and listen to samples HERE. Please note that the choral score is not included in the bundle and needs to be ordered separately.

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CWU Chamber Choir - Nicole Lamartine, conductor

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