H.M.S. Pinafore Vocal Score Book

Alfred Music Publishing is the world's largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational, reference pop and performance materials for teachers students professionals and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument style and difficulty level. In telling the story of Ralph a lowly able seaman who has fallen in love with Josephine the Captains daughter W. S. Gilbert poked fun at the snobbery and hypocrisy of the English social system of his day. The production was HMS Pinafore--a comic opera in two acts--which premiered in 1878 and turned out to be Gilbert and Sullivans first smash hit. This exemplary new edition by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones--the same team that produced Dovers full scores and vocal scores of The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance--have turned to the original manuscripts and early sources to produce handsome newly engraved plates closest to Gilbert and Sullivans first intentions. All voice parts are included in addition to a piano reduction of the full score and the complete dialogue. Available for the first time in an authoritative and popularly priced edition the meticulously prepared vocal score will be an indispensable rehearsal aid for soloists chorus members and pianists. Dover Original. Introduction by the editors. Instrumentation.