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Gilbert and Sullivan – A Dual Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514769-8. Bradley, Ian (1996). The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816503-X. Eden, David; Meinhard Saremba (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge ...
Other comedians have used Gilbert and Sullivan songs as a key part of their routines, including Hinge and Bracket, [168] Anna Russell, [169] and the HMS Yakko episode of the animated TV series Animaniacs. Songs from Gilbert and Sullivan are often pastiched in advertising, and elaborate advertising parodies have been published, as have the ...
"Three Little Maids from School Are We", sometimes listed as "Three Little Maids", is a song from Act I of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado.The song is a trio for three female characters who are schoolmates; at the end of the song, the three are joined by the chorus of female schoolmates.
The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan (2005, Oxford University Press), p. 190, that the two best internet sites for Gilbert and Sullivan are the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive "and a wonderful G & S Discography compiled by Marc Shepherd, which lists just about every known recording of every G & S opera ever made and receives around 1000 ...
"I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" (often referred to as the "Major-General's Song" or "Modern Major-General's Song") is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. It has been called the most famous Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. [1]
Apart from Gilbert and Sullivan tunes set to different words, such as Tom Lehrer's listing of the chemical elements to the tune of the Major General's Song, later patter songs can be found in early twentieth-century operettas, such as Edward German's Merrie England and in a number of musicals.
Iolanthe at The Gilbert & Sullivan Discography; Libretto; Iolanthe (Arthur Sullivan): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Transcription of a review of Iolanthe by Clement Scott; Biographies of the people listed in the historical casting chart; Gilbert & Sullivan song parodies, including some from Iolanthe
George Grossmith as General Stanley, wearing Wolseley's trademark moustache. Pirates premiered on 31 December 1879 in New York and was an immediate hit. [20] On 2 January 1880, Sullivan wrote, in another letter to his mother from New York, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully funny in parts, and sometimes brilliant in dialogue – beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert ...