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.
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.
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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