The Elements (Lehrer, Tom)

Composition Year 1959
Genre Categories Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; English language; For mixed chorus (arr); Scores featuring mixed chorus (arr); For unaccompanied chorus (arr)
Related Works Contrafact of the 'Major General Song' from The Pirates of Penzance

Sheet Music

Scores

 Complete Score
#655986 - 0.74MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 562×⇩ - R.D. Boyle

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R.D. Boyle (2020/11/3)

Editor Frank Metis (1925–2010)
2nd edition
Publisher. Info. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.
Copyright
Creative Commons Zero 1.0 [tag/del]
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

For Mixed Chorus (Birtwhistle)

 Complete Score
#1066761 - 0.37MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 15×⇩ - Zoebirtwhistle

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Zoebirtwhistle (2026/10/21)

Arranger Zoë Birtwhistle (b. 1992)
Publisher. Info. Zoë Birtwhistle, 2026.
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Misc. Notes Choral arrangement of The Elements, including the verse Lehrer published on his website in 2020 for the 16 discovered since the song was originally written. Please drop me a line if you ever decide to perform this! It think it would best be done one-to-a-part (so 10 singers total because there is some splitting), perhaps as an encore or maybe even a silly vocal warm-up to get the lips moving.
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General Information

Work Title The Elements
Alternative. Title
Composer Lehrer, Tom
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. ITL 20
Key C major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1959
First Performance. 1959
First Publication. 1968 in Tom Lehrer's Second Songbook
Librettist Composer
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Modern
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voice, piano
Related Works Contrafact of the 'Major General Song' from The Pirates of Penzance
Extra Information His most famous song, a list of all the elements at the time set to the music of Arthur Sullivan (see above)
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