The Mikado Vocal Score
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The Mikado Vocal Score

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Mikado Vocal Score

About this book

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.

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Act Two
Scene: Ko-Ko’s Garden. Yum-Yum discovered seated at her bridal toilet, surrounded by maidens, who are dressing her hair and painting her face and lips, as she judges of the effect in a mirror.
N° 12. Chorus and Solo: “Braid the Raven Hair”
Pitti-Sing and Schoolgirls
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Y-Yum:
Yes, I am indeed beautiful! Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No! Nature is lovely and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
N° 13. Song: “The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze”
Yum-Yum
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Y-Yum:
Yes, everything seems to smile upon me. I am to be married today to the man I love best, and I believe I am the very happiest girl in Japan!
P-Bo:
The happiest girl indeed, for she is indeed to be envied who has attained happiness in all but perfection.
Y-Yum:
In “all but” perfection?
P-Bo:
Well, dear, it can’t be denied that the fact that your husband is to be beheaded in a month is, in its way, a drawback. It does seem to take the top off it, you know.
P-Sing:
I don’t know about that. It all depends!
P-Bo:
At all events, he will find it a drawback.
P-Sing:
Not necessarily. Bless you, it all depends!
Y-Yum:
(In tears) I think it very indelicate of you to refer to such a subject on such a day. If my married happiness is to be — to be —
P-Bo:
Cut short.
Y-Yum:
Well, cut short — in a month, can’t you let me forget it? (Weeping)
(Enter Nanki-Poo, followed by Pish-Tush.)
N-Poo:
Yum-Yum in tears — and on her wedding-morn!
Y-Yum:
(Sobbing) They’ve been reminding me that in a month you’re to be beheaded! (Bursts into tears)
P-Sing:
Yes, we’ve been reminding her that you’re to be beheaded. (Bursts into tears)
P-Bo:
It’s quite true, you know, you are to be beheaded! (Bursts into tears)
N-Poo:
(Aside) Humph! Now some bridegrooms would be depressed by this sort of thing! (Aloud) A month? Well, wha...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Dramatis Personæ
  7. Synopsis
  8. OVERTURE (composed by Hamilton Clarke)
  9. ACT ONE
  10. ACT TWO
  11. Back Cover