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See also: Gilbert & Sullivan and the numerous variations of their single names. Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) was one of the foremost English composers of operetta in his day. He was born in London to a bandmaster, and had a knack for music innately. He studied music at Leipzig Conservatory, in Germany, where he met Franz Liszt and Edvard Grieg. Sullivan was a collaborator with Sir William Schw...read more

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The Pirates of Penzance: I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General
Onward, Christian soldiers
The Lost Chord
14. I am the very model of a modern Major-General
No. 4 Danse Grotesque
The long day closes
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: When I was a lad I served a term (Sir Joseph, Relatives, Sailors)
The Pirates of Penzance: Poor wand'ring one!
Three Little Maids From School Are We from The Mikado - Voice
The Mikado / Act 1: 10. Three little maids from school are we
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty, Act 1: No. 13, Song with Chorus, "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General, Girls, Pirates)
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 2: No. 20, Duets, "The flowers that bloom in the spring" (Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko)
The Mikado: Three little maids from school are we
1. Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty: Overture
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: We shall sail the ocean blue
The Pirates of Penzance: When the foeman bares his steel
With cat-like tread
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: I am the captain of the Pinafore (Captain Corcoran, Sailors)
Macbeth: Act IV, Introduction
The Pirates of Penzance, Act 1: "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"
3. Oh, better far to live and die
16. Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!
Cox and Box
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: We sail the ocean blue (Sailors)
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore
The Pirates of Penzance: When a felon's not engaged in his employment
Onward Christian Soldiers
2. When Fred'ric was a little lad
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: I'm called Little Buttercup (Buttercup)
H.M.S. Pinafore: Overture
It Came upon a Midnight Clear
7. Oh, is there not one maiden breast
15. Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
Thespis: No. 3 Valse
5. Climbing over rocky mountain
Sullivan: HMS Pinafore, Act 1: "We Sail the Ocean Blue" (Sailors)
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: I am the monarch of the sea (Sir Joseph, Hebe, Relatives, Sailors)
4. Oh, false one, you have deceived me
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Hail, men-o'-war's men (Buttercup)
The Mikado: Overture
18. Pray observe the magnanimity
12. Stay, we must not lose our senses
13. Hold, Monsters!
8. Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!
11. How beautifully blue the sky
6. Stop! ladies, pray! A man!
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: My gallant crew, good morning (Captain Corcoran, Sailors)
The Mikado: As someday it may happen that a victim...
4. Fare thee well, attractive stranger
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: A British tar is a soaring soul (Ralph, Boatswain, Boatswain's Mate, Sailors)
10. What ought we to do, Gentle sisters say?
17. You may go, for you're at liberty
Sullivan: The Dicky Bird and the Owl
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: But tell me, who's the youth (Buttercup, Boatswain)
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 1: No. 7, Trio with Chorus, "Three little maids from school" (Yum-Yum, Peep-bo, Pitti-Sing, Girls)
28. Oh, here is love and here is truth
Imperial March
Overture
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Sir, you are sad (Buttercup, Captain Corcoran)
So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: The nightingale sighed for the moon's bright ray (Ralph, Sailors, Buttercup)
22. Now for the pirates lair!
Behold the Lord High Executioner
23. When you had left our pirate fold
Sullivan: HMS Pinafore or The Lass that Loved a Sailor: Overture (Allegro - Allegro vivace)
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: A maiden fair to see (Ralph, Sailors)
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: When I was a lad
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Arr. Arthur Sullivan, Desc. Stephen Cleobury)
32. A rollicking band of pirates we
The Mikado: A wand'ring minstrel I
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Sorry her lot who loves too well (Josephine)
35. Sighing softly to the river
39. Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely straye
19. Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
24. Away, away, my heart's on fire
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea
The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
The Mikado / Act 1: 8. As someday it may happen that a victim...
Iolanthe: Loudly let the trumpet bray
27. Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
34. Hush! Hush! Not a word
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Refrain, audacious tar (Josephine, Ralph)
25. All is prepared
1. If you want to know who we are
The Mikado or The Town of Titipu: Overture
26. Stay, Fred'ric stay!
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Over the bright blue sea (Female Relatives of Sir Joseph Porter, Sailors, Captain Corcoran)
8. Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's
38. Away with them, and place them at the bar
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup
The Mikado / Act 1: 3. A wand'ring minstrel I
The Mikado, Act 1: Three Little Maids from School
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Entr'acte
19. No, I'll be brave
The Mikado / Act 1: 1. If you want to know who we are
36. Now what is this, and what is that
30. Sergeant approach (Dialogue)
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: Never mind the why and wherefore
37. We triumph now
The Mikado: On A Tree By A River A Little Tom Tit
The Mikado / Act 2: 22. The sun whose rays are all ablaze
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: The nightingale sighed
13. I am so proud, If I allowed
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Can I survive this overbearing (Ralph, Sailors, Hebe, Relatives, Dick, Josephine)
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 2: No. 20, Duets, "The flowers that bloom in the sp
The Mikado / Act 1: 7. Behold the Lord High Executioner
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: A joy! Oh rapture unforseen
4. Our great Mikado, virtuous man
1. Tripping hither, tripping thither
Macbeth: Chorus Of Spirits In The Air - Allegro Vivace
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: Sir, you are sad
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: Never mind the why and wherefore (Captain Corcoran, Sir Joseph, Josephine)
The Mikado / Act 1: 2. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
Act III: This helmet, I suppose (Arac, Guron, Scynthius)
9. Comes a train of little ladies
Princess Ida
2. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
The Pirates of Penzance
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen (Ralph, Josephine, Sailors, Relatives, Dick)
Terrified Bad Music Will Be Made Into Records
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen (Ralph, Josephine, Captain Corcoran, Buttercup, Sir Joseph, Hebe, Relatives, Sailors)
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: A maiden fair to see
Here's A How-De-Do!
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: Let's give three cheers (Josephine, Hebe, Ralph, Boatswain, Relatives, Sailors)
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty, Act 1: No. 14, Finale, "Oh, men of dark and dismal fate" (Major-General, Pirate King, Samuel, Pirates)
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: Sir Joseph's barge is seen
5. Young man, despair
For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri: Overture
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: Fair moon to thee I sing (Captain Corcoran)
The Mikado
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: Sorry her lot who loves too well
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act I: This very night (Josephine, Hebe, Ralph, Boatswain, Relatives, Sailors, Dick)
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: Pretty daughter of mine (Captain Corcoran, Sailors, Ralph, Josephine, Boatswain, Hebe, Relatives, Sir Joseph)
6. And I have journey'd for a month
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: Over the bright blue sea
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: A British tar
The Mikado / Act 1: 13. I am so proud, If I allowed
18. For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
12. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
Patience
The Mikado / Act 1: 11. So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret
9. The law is the embodiment
H.M.S. Pinafore: Entracte
15. The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
14. With aspect stern and gloomy stride
There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring, Tra La
The Mikado / Act 1: 4. Our great Mikado, virtuous man
2. Iolanthe! From thy dark exile
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: Things are seldom what they seem (Buttercup, Captain Corcoran)
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: The hours creep on apace (Josephine)
Macbeth: Overture
Overture di ballo
The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture (Arr. J. Kitchen for Organ)
19. The hour of gladness is dead and gone
Ruddigore
Trial by Jury: Hark, the hour of ten is sounding (Barristers, Attorneys, Jury, Public)
6. None shall part us from each other
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: A many years ago (Buttercup, Relatives, Sailors)
Iolanthe
H.M.S. Pinafore: For He Is An Englishman (Act 2)
The Mikado, Act 1: If You Want to Know Who We Are
The Sorcerer / Act 1: My name is John Wellington Wells
The Mikado / Act 1: 18. For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
17. Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!
16. Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: Refrain, audacious tar
The Mikado / Act 2: 33. On a tree by a river a little tom tit
3. Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow
The Mikado / Act 2: 30. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la
The Mikado, Act 1: Behold, The Lord High Executioner!
The Sorcerer
15. When darkly looms the day
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: Carefully on tiptoe stealing (Ralph, Josephine, Sailors, Captain Corcoran, Dick)
The Gondoliers: We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary
20. Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: Kind Captain, I've important information (Dick, Captain Corcoran)
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty, Act 1: No. 3, Song, "Oh, better far to live and die" (Pirate King, Pirates)
Said I to myself, said I
25. Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni
HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Act II: Farewell my own (Ralph, Josephine, Sir Joseph, Boatswain, Dick, Hebe, Buttercup, Relatives, Sailors)
The Yeomen of the guard
5. Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!
H.M.S.Pinafore: I'm called Little Buttercup
The Mikado / Act 1: 9. Comes a train of little ladies
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: Can I survive this overbearing
27. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
The Yeomen of the Guard: I have a song to sing, oh!
10. My well-beloved Lord
The Mikado / Act 1: 6. And I have journey'd for a month
26. From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect
The Mikado / Act 1: 5. Young man, despair
23. Brightly dawns our wedding day
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 1: No. 3, Song and Chorus, "Our Great Mikado, virtuous man" (Pish-Tush, Nobles)
Sullivan: The Gondoliers or the King of Barataria, Act 1: "From the Sunny Spanish Shore" (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Luiz)
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 1: No. 1, Chorus, "If you want to know who we are" (Nobles)
31. Alone and yet alive
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: Kind Captain, I've important information
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: Things are seldom what they seem
21. Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses
H.M.S.Pinafore: Now give three cheers...When I was a lad
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 2: No. 24, Finale, "For he's gone and married Yum-Yum … The threatened cloud" (Pitti-Sing, Ko-Ko, Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum, Others)
The Gondoliers: In enterprise of martial kind
The Mikado / Act 2: 24. Here's a how-de-do!
The Mikado, Act 1: So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: Fair moon to thee I sing
The Mikado / Act 2: 36. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
22. Love unrequited
29. See how the fates their gifts allot
The Mikado: The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 1: No. 5, Chorus with Song, "Behold the Lord High Executioner!" (Nobles, Ko-Ko)
When all night long a chap remains
28. The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down
Patience / Act 1: The soldiers of our Queen
Trial by Jury: Now jurymen hear my advice (Usher, Barristers, Attorneys, Jury, Public)
The Mikado, Act 1: I Am So Proud
The Mikado / Act 1: 15. The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: Farewell, my own
12. Spurn not the nobly born
HMS Pinafore
Trial by Jury: Is this the Court of the Exchequer? (Defendant, Jury, Others)
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 1: No. 2b, Song with Chorus, "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" (Nanki-Poo, Nobles)
The Gondoliers
32. Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
The Mikado, Act 1: As Some Day It May Happen
18. When Britain really ruled the waves
The Mikado / Act 2: 27. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
Trial by Jury: When first my old, old love I knew (Defendant, Jury)
The Mikado / Act 2: 34. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
The Mikado / Act 1: 12. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
Ouvertüre "The Gondoliers"
The Grand Duke
The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
The Mikado, Act 1: Young Man, Despair
The Mikado / Act 1: 14. With aspect stern and gloomy stride
The Gondoliers: Take a pair of sparkling eyes
Trial by Jury: When I, good friends, was called to the Bar (Judge, Others)
17. Strephon's a member of Parliament
23. If you go in you're sure to win
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: A many years ago
27. Soon as we may, off and away
The Mikado / Act 1: 16. Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
Patience / Act 1: Am I alone and unobserved?
Andante espressivo aus der Sinfonie E-Dur
Trial by Jury: Silence in Court...All hail, great Judge (Usher, Others, Judge)
The Sorcerer: Overture
The Mikado / Act 1: 19. The hour of gladness is dead and gone
H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: The hours creep on apace
Patience / Act 1: If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..
13. Lords, it may not be
Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 1: No. 8, Quintett, "So please you, sir, we much regret" (Yum-Yum, Peep-bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush, Girls)
Symphony in E major, "Irish": II. Andante espressivo
The Mikado, Act 1: The Hour of Gladness
The Mikado, Act 1: A Wand'ring Minstrel, I
2. Good morrow, pretty maids
The Mikado / Act 2: 23. Brightly dawns our wedding day
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