The Authentic Gilbert & Sullivan Songbook

The Authentic Gilbert & Sullivan Songbook

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  • Product Number: DOV234827
  • Publisher: Dover
  • Barcode: 9780486234823
  • Author: William S. Gilbert And Arthur S. Sullivan
  • Arrangement: Vocal and Piano
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The songs of Gilbert & Sullivan, as with many near-legendary works adopted by an enthusiastic, uncritical public, have not always survived in the most reliable form. A word gets lost or blurred, a strophe is dropped, and the song evolves along uncontrollable lines. Fortunately many of the early vocal scores authorized by Sir Arthur Sullivan still exist--and are reprinted here, in the most complete and authentic anthology of Gilbert & Sullivan currently available. Ninety-two songs from all fourteen operettas are reproduced in the form Sullivan approved. Each number in this collection -- solo, chorus, patter song, ballad, etc.--is presented uncut, unedited, in the original key, in Sullivan's original piano arrangements. The memorable ditties from the pair's 25-year collaboration (1871-96) appear, along with many not so well known, including a piece from their first joint effort, Thespis (1871), the entire score of which has been lost except for two number

Malcolm Binney and Peter Lavender collected these rare, complete vocal scores suitable for amateur and professional performance or reading; James Spero has added complete title and premiere information and a plot synopsis for each operetta. Gilbert & Sullivan lovers and all who delight in an irresistible lyric will find the authentic best in English light opera between these sturdy covers.

  • THESPIS: Little maid of Arcadee
  • TRIAL BY JURY: When first my old, old love I knew
  • TRIAL BY JURY: When I, good friends, was call'd to the bar
  • TRIAL BY JURY: With a sense of deep emotion
  • TRIAL BY JURY: O gentlemen, listen I pray
  • THE SORCERER: Time was, when Love and I
  • THE SORCERER: Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!
  • THE SORCERER: My name is John Wellington Wells
  • THE SORCERER: Dear friends, take pity on my lot
  • H.M.S. PINAFORE: We sail the ocean blue
  • H.M.S. PINAFORE: I'm called little Buttercup
  • H.M.S. PINAFORE: A maiden fair to see
  • H.M.S. PINAFORE: I am the captain of the Pinafore
  • H.M.S. PINAFORE: I am the monarch of the sea
  • H.M.S. PINAFORE: When I was a lad
  • H.M.S. PINAFORE: Never mind the why and wherefore
  • H.M.S. PINAFORE: He is an Englishman!
  • THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: Oh, better far to live and die
  • THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: Poor wand'ring one
  • THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: I am the very model of a modern Major-General
  • THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: When the foeman bares his steel
  • THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: When you had left our pirate fold
  • THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: When a felon's not engaged in his employment
  • THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: With cat-like tread
  • PATIENCE: I cannot tell what this love may be
  • PATIENCE: If you want a receipt
  • PATIENCE: Am I alone, And unobserved?
  • PATIENCE: Prithee, pretty maiden
  • PATIENCE: Sad is that woman's lot
  • PATIENCE: A magnet hung in a hardware shop
  • PATIENCE: So go to him
  • PATIENCE: When I go out of door
  • IOLANTHE: Tripping hither, tripping thither
  • IOLANTHE: Loudly let the trumpet bray (March of the Peers)
  • IOLANTHE: The Law is the true embodiment
  • IOLANTHE: Spurn not the nobly born
  • IOLANTHE: When I went to the Bar
  • IOLANTHE: When all night long a chap remains
  • IOLANTHE: When Britain really rul'd the waves
  • IOLANTHE: Oh, foolish fay
  • IOLANTHE: Love, unrequited (Nightmare song)
  • IOLANTHE: If you go in
  • PRINCESS IDA: If you give me your attention
  • PRINCESS IDA: Expressive glances
  • PRINCESS IDA: I am a maiden
  • PRINCESS IDA: A Lady fair
  • PRINCESS IDA: Would you know the kind of maid
  • PRINCESS IDA: Whene'er I spoke
  • PRINCESS IDA: This helmet, I suppose
  • THE MIKADO: A wand'ring minstrel I
  • THE MIKADO: Behold the Lord High Executioner!
  • THE MIKADO: As some day it may happen
  • THE MIKADO: Three little maids
  • THE MIKADO: So please you, Sir
  • THE MIKADO: For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
  • THE MIKADO: The sun, whose rays
  • THE MIKADO: Brightly dawns our wedding day
  • THE MIKADO: Here's a how-de-do
  • THE MIKADO: Miya sarna
  • THE MIKADO: A more humane Mikado
  • THE MIKADO: The Bowers that bloom in the spring
  • THE MIKADO: Alone, and yet alive!
  • THE MIKADO: On a tree by a river (Titwillow)
  • THE MIKADO: There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
  • RUDDIGORE: If somebody there chanced to be
  • RUDDIGORE: I shipped, d'ye see and Hornpipe
  • RUDDIGORE: My boy, you may take it from me
  • RUDDIGORE: Cheerily carols the lark over the cot
  • RUDDIGORE: When the night wind howls
  • RUDDIGORE: I once was a very abandoned person
  • RUDDIGORE: My eyes are fully open
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: When maiden loves
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: Is life a boon?
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: I have a song to sing, O!
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: I've jibe and joke
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: Were I thy bride
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: Oh! a private buffoon
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: Strange adventure!
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: A man who would woo a fair maid
  • THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD: When a wooer Goes a-wooing
  • THE GONDOLIERS: We're called gondolieri
  • THE GONDOLIERS: In enterprise of martial kind
  • THE GONDOLIERS: I stole the Prince
  • THE GONDOLIERS: When a merry maiden marries
  • THE GONDOLIERS: Then one of us will be a Queen
  • THE GONDOLIERS: Take a pair of sparkling eyes
  • THE GONDOLIERS: Dance a cachucha
  • THE GONDOLIERS: There lived a King
  • THE GONDOLIERS: I am a courtier grave and serious
  • UTOPIA, LIMITED: In ev'ry mental lore
  • UTOPIA, LIMITED: Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses
  • THE GRAND DUKE: So ends my dream

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