The Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan, Arthur)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 acts
Composition Year 1887-88
Genre Categories Savoy operas; Theatrical Works; Operas; [16 more...]Operettas; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; English language; For male chorus, piano (arr); Scores featuring male chorus (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); For chorus with keyboard (arr); For horn, trumpet, euphonium (arr); Scores featuring the horn (arr); Scores featuring the trumpet (arr); Scores featuring the euphonium (arr); For 3 players (arr)
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Sheet Music

Scores

Complete

Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, 1888.
Copyright
Public Domain
Misc. Notes Royal College of Music Library, London (GB-Lcm): MS 605
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 Complete Score
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Copyist Hermann Greinert
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.[1888].
Copyright
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Misc. Notes Copyist's manuscript used for the first New York production in 1888.
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 Act I
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Publisher. Info. Fishworks
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Overture

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Copyist John Bauser (b. 1949)
Publisher. Info. New York: E.F. Kalmus, No.A3146, 1979.
Copyright
Public Domain
Misc. Notes
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Parts

Complete

⇒ 11 more: Oboe • Clarinet 1/2 (B♭/A) • Bassoon 1/2 • Horn 1/2 (F) • Cornet 1/2 (B♭/A) • Trombone 1/2/3 • Timpani/Triangle/Bass Drum/Cymbals • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Cellos/Basses

Publisher. Info. London: Chappell / D'Oyly Carte Opera Co., n.d.(ca.1920).
Reprinted New York: E.F. Kalmus, n.d.(1933–70). Cataloig A2455.
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Overture

⇒ 11 more: Oboe • Clarinet 1/2 (B♭) • Bassoon 1/2 • Horn 1/2 (F) • Cornet 1/2 (B♭) • Trombone 1/2/3 • Timpani • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Cellos/Basses

Publisher. Info. London: Chappell / D'Oyly Carte Opera Co., n.d.(ca.1920).
Reprinted New York: E.F. Kalmus, n.d.(1933–70). Catalog A3146.
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Vocal Scores

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Arranger Joseph H. Wadsworth (fl.1885-1900), piano reduction
Publisher. Info. London: Chappell & Co., n.d.(ca.1888). Plate 18,577.
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Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.
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Arranger Joseph H. Wadsworth (fl.1885-1900), piano reduction
Publisher. Info. London: Chappell & Co., n.d.(after 1911). Plate 18577.
Copyright
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Misc. Notes The 1911 date on the title page refers to the date of the revised British copyright law, not the date the score was issued.
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Editor Edmond W. Rickett (1869–1956)
Publisher. Info. New York: Schirmer, 1954. Plate 42192.
Copyright
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Misc. Notes This score contains all the dialogue.
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Selections

 A laughing boy but yesterday
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Arranger Adam Cuerden (b. 1979), piano reduction
Publisher. Info. Adam Cuerden (Wikimedia Commons), 2007.
Copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
Misc. Notes Song cut during the original performance run.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

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For Male Chorus and Piano (Davison)
Arranger Archibald Thompson Davison (1883–1961)
Publisher. Info. The Concord Series: Harvard University Glee Club Collection of Part Songs for Men's Voices, No.918
Boston: E.C. Schirmer Music Co., 1929. Plate E.C.S. No.434.
Copyright
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Misc. Notes This file is part of the Indianapolis Maennerchor Archive.
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Strange adventure (No.17)

For Horn, Trumpet and Euphonium (Messerschmidt)
Arranger Hans Jorgen Messerschmidt (b. 1944)
Publisher. Info. Hans Jorgen Messerschmidt, 2018.
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General Information

Work Title The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and his Maid
Alternative. Title Operetta in Two Acts
Composer Sullivan, Arthur
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IAS 84
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 acts:
Overture
  • Act I
1. "When maiden loves, she sits and sighs" (Phœbe)
1a. "When jealous torments rack my soul" (Wilfred) – see "Cut music"
2. "Tower warders, under orders" (Crowd and Yeomen, solo Second Yeoman)
3. "When our gallant Norman foes" (Dame Carruthers and Yeomen)
3a. "A laughing boy but yesterday" (Meryll); – see "Cut music"
4. "Alas! I waver to and fro" (Phœbe, Leonard and Meryll)
5. "Is life a boon?" (Fairfax)
6. "Here's a man of jollity" (Chorus)
7. "I have a song to sing, O!" (or, "The Merryman and his Maid") (Point, Elsie, and chorus)
8. "How say you, maiden, will you wed?" (Lieutenant, Elsie, Point)
9. "I've jibe and joke" (Point)
10. "'Tis done! I am a bride!" (Elsie)
11. "Were I thy bride" (Phœbe)
12. Finale Act I (Ensemble)
"Oh, Sergeant Meryll, is it true?"
"To thy fraternal care, thy sister I commend"
"The pris'ner comes to meet his doom"
"M'lord, m'lord.... As escort for the prisoner"
"All frenzied, frenzied with despair they rave"
  • Act II
13. "Night has spread her pall once more" (People, Dame Carruthers, Yeomen)
14. "Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Point)
15. "Hereupon we're both agreed" (Point and Wilfred)
16. "Free from his fetters grim" (Fairfax)
17. "Strange adventure" (Kate, Dame Carruthers, Fairfax, Meryll)
18. "Hark! What was that, sir?" ... "Like a ghost his vigil keeping"
(Meryll, Fairfax, Lieutenant, Wilfred, Point, Ensemble)
19. "A man who would woo a fair maid" (Fairfax, Elsie, Phœbe)
20. "When a wooer goes a-wooing" (Elsie, Fairfax, Phœbe, Point)
21. "Rapture, rapture" (Dame Carruthers, Sergeant Meryll)
22. Finale Act II (Ensemble)
"Comes the pretty young bride"
"Oh, day of terror!"
"Leonard, my loved one, come to me"
"I have a song to sing, O!"
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1887-88
First Performance. 1888-10-03 — London, Savoy Theatre
First Publication. 1888 – London: Chappell & Co.
Librettist William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus (SATB), orchestra
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Cast
Sir Richard Cholmondeley (pronounced Chum'lee), Lieutenant of the Tower (baritone)
Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death (tenor)
Sergeant Meryll of the Yeomen of the Guard (bass-baritone)
Leonard Meryll, his son (tenor)
Jack Point, a strolling jester (comic baritone)
Wilfred Shadbolt, Head Jailer and Assistant Tormentor (bass-baritone or baritone)
The Headsman (silent)
First Yeoman (tenor)
Second Yeoman (baritone)
Third Yeoman (tenor) – see "Cut music"
Fourth Yeoman (bass) – see "Cut music"
First Citizen (speaking/chorus)
Second Citizen (speaking/chorus)
Elsie Maynard, a strolling singer (soprano)
Phœbe Meryll, Sergeant Meryll's daughter (mezzo-soprano)
Dame Carruthers, Housekeeper to the Tower (contralto)
Kate, her niece (soprano)

Mixed Chorus (SATB)

Chorus of Yeomen Warders, Gentlemen, Citizens, etc.

Orchestra

2 flutes (2nd also piccolo), oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons
2 horns, 2 cornets, 3 trombones
timpani, triangle, bass drum, cymbals, strings
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Discography Gilbert & Sullivan Discography
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