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Henry Lytton as the Major-General (1919) Drawing from 1884 children's Pirates "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.
Major-General Stanley's song, "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" in Act 1 of The Pirates of Penzance (1879); the Lord Chancellor's "Nightmare song", "When you're lying awake" in Act 2 of Iolanthe (1882); the Sorcerer's song, "My Name is John Wellington Wells" in Act 1 of The Sorcerer (1877);
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General Stanley) [7] Sullivan: Princess Ida – "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am" (King Gama) [5] Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin) [5]
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 ...
The Elements" is a 1959 song with lyrics by musical humorist, mathematician and lecturer Tom Lehrer, which recites the names of all the chemical elements known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. Lehrer arranged the music of the song from the tune of the "Major-General's Song" from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan ...
The song contains the lyric, "Now I'm the model of a modern major general", which is adapted from the Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. The credits of the 2020 film adaptation of Hamilton acknowledge this as the source of the lyric.
The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia states that the poem was "evidently" inspired by Gilbert and Sullivan's patter song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General", whose tune it fits, and further that Swann's musical setting is an obvious pastiche of Sullivan's style. [9]
All selections composed by Patrick Sky, except "Modern Major General" (adapted from a Gilbert and Sullivan song) All, selections published by Rabelaisian Music, Inc. (BMI) References