The songs of Gilbert &amp; 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 &amp; 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 numbers. Contents include: Thespis "Little Maid of Arcadee" Trial by Jury "O gentlemen, listen I pray" The Sorcerer "Welcome joy! Adieu to sadness!" HMS Pinafore "When I was a lad; He is an Englishman!" The Pirates of Penzance "Poor wand'ring one; With cat-like tread" Patience "Prithee, pretty maidens; Sad is that woman's lot" Iolanthe "Oh foolish fay; What I went to the Bar" Princess Ida "Expressive glances" The Mikado "A wand'ring minstrel I; Three little maids" Ruddigore "I once was a very abandoned person" The Yeomen of the Guard "Oh! A private buffoon" The Gondoliers "I stole the Prince" Utopia, Limited "Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses" The Grand Duke "So ends my dream" 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 &amp; Sullivan lovers and all who delight in an irresistible lyric will find the authentic best in English light opera between these sturdy covers.

The Authentic Gilbert & Sullivan Songbook (Dover Opera Scores)

Arts & Photography

Gilbert, W.S.

Sullivan, A. S.

Music

Dover Publications

This exemplary new edition of the vocal score of an enchanting operetta — which has delighted audiences for over a century with its catchy melodies, its witty lyrics, and its madcap tale of tender-hearted pirates, timid policemen, and the demands of duty — was prepared by musicologists Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones, who returned to original manuscripts and early sources to produce handsome, newly engraved plates closest to Gilbert and Sullivan's original intentions. All of the voice parts appear here, in addition to a piano reduction of the full score and the complete libretto. Introduction by the editors. Contents. Instrumentation.

The Pirates of Penzance Vocal Score (Dover Opera Scores)

Literature & Fiction

Opera and Choral Scores

Sullivan, Sir Arthur

Dramas & Plays

New edition by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones. Popular from its first performance in 1878, this work contains some of Gilbert's most clever flashes of wit and a number of Sullivan's most charming melodies. Music scholars Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones have drawn on original manuscripts and early sources to produce handsome, newly engraved plates closest to Gilbert and Sullivan's original intentions. This authoritative and inexpensive edition is sure to delight Gilbert and Sullivan fans, operetta lovers, musicians, and students.

H.M.S. Pinafore in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)

Sullivan, Arthur

Ephraim Hammett Jones

Carl Simpson

The Bab Ballads

BiblioBazaar

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The Bab Ballads (Large Print Edition)

Poetry

BiblioLife

Bab ballads and Savoy songs

History

World

Trieste Publishing

W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century.  In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems.  This is the only book to offer the complete collection of ballads with all original illustrations, a tribute to the comic genius of a writer known as "the most original dramatist of his generation." This collection will delight readers with its irreverence and wit.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Belknap Press

W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems. This is the only book to offer the complete collection of ballads with all original illustrations, a tribute to the comic genius of a writer known as "the most original dramatist of his generation." This collection will delight readers with its irreverence and wit.

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Gilbert before Sullivan: six comic plays,

Routledge & Kegan Paul Books

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