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The yeomen of the Guard : or, The merryman and his maid / W.S. Gilbert ; Arthur Sullivan ; edited by Colin Jagger.
Composer
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
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Uniform title
Yeomen of the Guard.
Vocal score
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Format
Musical score
Language
English
Εdition
Vocal score.
Published/Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
1 vocal score (vi, 210 pages) ; 28 cm
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Status
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
M1503.S8 Y4 2016q Oversize
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Subject(s)
Operas
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Vocal scores with piano
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Librettist
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911
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Editor
Jagger, Colin
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Operas
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Summary note
This edition based on the autograph full score, as well as the first print of the vocal score, published by Chappell in 1888.
Notes
New critical edition.
Preface in English.
Language note
English words.
Script
Staff notation.
Contents
Act I. No. 1. Introduction and song: "When maiden loves, she sits and sights" (Phoebe) ; No. 1a. Song: "When jealous torments rack my soul" (Wilfred) ; No. 2. Double chorus: "Tower warders, under orders" (People & Yeomen) ; No. 3. Song with chorus: "When our gllant Norman foes" (Dame Carruthers & Yeomen) ; No. 3a. Song: "A laughing boy but yesterday" (Meryll) ; No. 4. Trio: "Alas! I waver to and fro" (Phoebe, Leonard, & Meryll) ; No. 5. Song: "Is life a boon?" (Fairfax) ; No. 6. Chorus: "Here's a man of jollity" (Entrance of Crowd, Elsie, & Point) ; No. 7. Duet: "I have a song to sing, O!" (Elsie, Point, & Chorus) ; No. 8. Trio: "How say you, maiden, will you wed" (Elsie, Point, & Lieutenant)
No. 9. Song: "I've jibe and joke (Point) ; No. 10. Recitative and song: 'Tis done! I am a bride" (Elsie) ; No. 11. Song: "Were I thy bride" (Phoebe) ; No. 12. Finale: "Oh, Sergeant Meryll, is it true" (Ensemble)
Act II. No. 1. Chorus: "Night has spread her pall once more (Chorus & Dame Carruthers) ; No. 2. Song" "Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Point) ; No. 3. Duet: "Hereupon we're both agreed" (Point & Wilfred) ; No. 4. Ballad: "Free from his fetters grim" (Fairfax) ; No. 5. Quartet: "Strange adventure!" (Kate, Dame Carruthers, Fairfax, & Meryll) ; No. 6. Scene: "Hark! what was that, sir?" (Ensemble) ; No. 7. Trio: "A man who would woo a fair maid" (Elsie, Phoebe, & Fairfax) ; No. 8. Quartet: "When a wooer goes a-wooing" (Elsie, Phoebe, Fairfax, & Point) ; No. 9. Duet: Rapture, rapture! (Dame Carruthers & Meryll) ; No. 10. Finale: Comes the pretty young bride (Ensemble)
Appendix I. Song: "Is life a boon?" (Fairfax) : original version of Act I, no. 5
Appendix II. Duet: "Rapture, rapture! (Dame Carruthers & Meryll) : original ending to Act II, no. 9.
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Merryman and his maid
ISBN
9780193389205 ((pbk.))
0193389207 ((pbk.))
OCLC
964537332
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