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    The Mikado Vocal Score
    The Mikado Vocal Score
    The Mikado Vocal Score
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    The Mikado Vocal Score

    By W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan

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    An enduringly popular romantic spoof that has charmed countless listeners since its 1885 debut, The Mikado's appealing Japanese setting lends fresh novelty to Sullivan's winsome melodies and Gilbert's satirical verses.
    This new vocal score edition by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones includes all the voice parts, a piano reduction of the full score, and the complete libretto. This inexpensive edition exactly matches the excellent full score of The Mikado, also published by Dover, and prepared by the same editorial team. It will be indispensable to soloists, chorus members, and rehearsal pianists.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9780486314969
    The Mikado Vocal Score
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    W. S. Gilbert

    W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) was an English librettist, dramatist, and poet. Born in London, Gilbert was raised by William, a surgeon and novelist, and Anne Mary, an apothecary’s daughter. As a child he lived with his parents in Italy and France before finally returning to London in 1847. Gilbert graduated from Kind’s College London in 1856 before joining the Civil Service and briefly working as a barrister. In 1861, he began publishing poems, stories, and theatre reviews in Fun, The Cornhill Magazine, and Temple Bar. His first play was Uncle Baby, which ran to moderate acclaim for seven weeks in 1863. He soon became one of London’s most popular writers of opera burlesques, but turned away from the form in 1869 to focus on prose comedies. In 1871, he began working with composer Arthur Sullivan, whose music provided the perfect melody to some of the most popular comic operas of all time, including H. M. S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), and The Mikado (1885). At London’s Savoy Theatre and around the world, The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company would perform Gilbert and Sullivan’s works for the next century. Gilbert, the author of more than 75 plays and countless more poems, stories, and articles, influenced such writers as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, as well as laid the foundation for the success of American musical theatre on Broadway and beyond.

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      The Mikado Vocal Score - W. S. Gilbert

      The Mikado

      Vocal Score

      W. S. Gilbert

      and

      Sir Arthur Sullivan

      New Edition

      by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones

      With a New Piano Reduction by

      Ephraim Hammett Jones

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      Mineola, New York

      Complete performance material for this work is available on rental from:

      MMB Music, Inc.

      Contemporary Arts Building

      3526 Washington Avenue

      Saint Louis, Missouri 63132, USA

      Phone: 314 531-9635; 800 543-3771 (USA/Canada)

      FAX: 314 531-8384

      E-mail: mmbmusic@mmbmusic.com

      Website: http://www.mmbmusic.com

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2000 by Serenissima Music Inc.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      Bibliographical Note

      Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones’ edition of The Mikado is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1999, and in the present vocal score in 2000. Newly engraved plates for both publications were prepared by the editors.

      International Standard Book Number: 0-486-41163-X

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Dramatis Personæ

      Synopsis

      O

      VERTURE

      (composed by Hamilton Clarke)

      ACT ONE

      Scene: Courtyard of Ko-Ko’s Official Residence

      No.   1 Chorus: If You Want to Know Who We Are

      Noblemen of Titipu

      Recitative: Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush

      No.   2 Song and Chorus: A Wandering Minstrel I

      Nanki-Poo and Noblemen

      No.   3 Song and Chorus: Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man

      Pish-Tush and Noblemen

      No.   4 Song: Young Man, Despair

      Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush

      Recitative: Nanki-Poo and Pooh-Bah

      No.   5 Chorus and Song: Behold the Lord High Executioner

      Ko-Ko and Noblemen

      No. 5a Song: I’ve Got a Little List

      Ko-Ko and Noblemen

      No.   6 Chorus: Comes a Train of Little Ladies

      Schoolgirls of Titipu

      No.   7 Trio: Three Little Maids from School

      Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing and Schoolgirls

      No.   8 Quintett: So Please You Sir, We Much Regret

      Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush and Schoolgirls

      No.   9 Duet: Were I Not to Ko-Ko Plighted

      Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo

      No. 10 Trio: I Am So Proud

      Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Pish-Tush

      No. 11 With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride

      Finale – Act One

      ACT TWO

      Scene: Ko-Ko’s Garden

      No. 12 Chorus and Solo: Braid the Raven Hair

      Pitti-Sing and Schoolgirls

      No. 13 Song: The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze

      Yum-Yum

      No. 14 Madrigal: Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day

      Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush

      No. 15 Trio: Here’s a How-de-do!

      Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko

      No. 16 Entrance of Mikado: Mi-ya Sa-ma

      Mikado, Katisha, Schoolgirls, Noblemen, Guards and Servants

      No. 17 Song and Chorus: A More Humane Mikado

      Mikado, Schoolgirls, Noblemen, Guards and Servants

      No. 18 Trio and Chorus: The Criminal Cried as He Dropped Him Down

      Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Schoolgirls, Noblemen, Guards and Servants

      No. 19 Glee: See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot

      Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Katisha

      No. 20 Duet: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring

      Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko, with Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah

      No. 21 Recitative and Song: Alone, and Yet Alive!

      Katisha

      No. 22 Song: Willow, Tit-Willow

      Ko-Ko

      No. 23 Duet: There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast

      Katisha and Ko-Ko

      No. 24 For He’s Gone and Married Yum-Yum

      Finale – Act Two

      PREFACE

      The Mikado, arguably the greatest masterpiece among the remarkable series of comic operas that came about from the collaboration of playwright William S. Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur S. Sullivan along with the partnership of impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte, had its genesis less than a year after the composer informed Carte of his intention to leave the partnership which had proved so successful in the nine years since the introduction of Trial By Jury.

      After conducting the premiere of Princess Ida on January 5th, 1884, Sullivan collapsed backstage from a combination of exhaustion and a flare-up of his chronic kidney disease. In addition to being depressed by the sudden death of longtime friend Frederic Clay, the composer was dissatisfied with the state of his career following knighthood the year before. The English music establishment of the era simultaneously praised his talent and condemned his ‘prostitution’ of that talent by working in the field of ‘light’ or comic opera. Examples of this attitude are to be found in a review of Iolanthe which appeared in the London Globe: Mr. Sullivan’s music is undoubtedly the work of a masterly musician, content for awhile to partially sacrifice himself rather than hinder the clear enunciation of words ... as well as an editorial in the Musical Review upon the award of knighthood: "Some things that Mr. Arthur Sullivan may do, Sir Arthur ought not to do. In other words, it will look rather more than odd to see announced in the papers that a new comic opera is in preparation, the book by Mr. W.S. Gilbert and the music by

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