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 [Browse]
Uniform title
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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    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.
    Other title(s)
    Merryman and his maid
    ISBN
    • 9780193389205 ((pbk.))
    • 0193389207 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    964537332
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