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2022-06-12: PIRATES OF PENZANCE score

I downloaded the score of PIRATES OF PENZANCE. So many good songs!


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  1. Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry (Chorus of Pirates)

  2. When Fred'ric was a little lad (Ruth)

  3. Oh, better far to live and die ("I am a Pirate King") (Pirate King, Chorus)

  4. Oh! false one, you have deceived me! (Fred'ric, Ruth)

  5. Climbing over rocky mountain (Major-General's Daughters)

  6. Stop, ladies, pray! (Fred'ric, Major-General's Daughters)

  7. Oh, is there not one maiden breast (Fred'ric, Chorus of Daughters)

  8. Poor wand'ring one (Mabel, Chorus of Daughters)

  9. What ought we to do (Chorus of Daughters)

  10. How beautifully blue the sky (Fred'ric, Mabel, Chorus of Daughters and Pirates)

  11. Stay, we must not lose our senses (Daughters, Pirates)

  12. Hold, monsters! (Major-General, Fred'ric, Mabel, Pirates, Chorus of Daughters)

  13. I am the very model of a modern Major-General (Major-General, Chorus)

  14. Oh, men of dark and dismal fate (Chorus of Pirates and Daughters, Major-General)

  15. Oh dry the glist'ning tear (Mabel, Chorus of Daughters)

  16. Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted (Mabel, Sergeant, Chorus of Police)

  17. When the foeman bares his steel ("Tarantara") (Sergeant, Mabel, Chorus of Police and Daughters)

  18. Now for the pirates' lair! (Fred'ric, Ruth, King)

  19. When you had left our pirate fold (Ruth, King, Fred'ric)

  20. My eyes are fully open (Ruth, Fred'ric, King)

  21. Away, away! my heart's on fire (Fred'ric, King, Ruth, Chorus of Pirates)

  22. All is prepared; your gallant crew await you (Sergeant, Chorus of Police)

  23. With cat-like tread ("Hush, hush, not a word") (Chorus of Pirates and Police)

  24. Sighing softly to the river (Chorus of Police)

  25. Finale: Poor wand'ring ones! / Home, sweet home (Ensemble)


#3 sounds like a bragging politician. Rudy? Mo Brooks? 


#4 seems useful. There were plenty of false ones and their deceptions. 


#8 is a fun one for an excellent soprano. And there were thousands of poor wandering ones that day. 


#13 is over-used. It's probably the most well-known G&S tune. I'll avoid it.


#17 is probably good as-is, with little or no change in lyrics, as a song about Nancy Pelosi commanding the US Capitol Police to a doomed attack, even though they are ridiculously outnumbered. 


#20 is a patter song ideal for exploring how three characters view the plot.


#25 has potential, but I'm not sure how just yet.


I can work with these. 



 
 
 

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