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Author Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.

Title Strike up the band / music and lyrics by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin ; book by George S. Kaufman ; vocal score prepared and edited by Steven D. Bowen.

Publication Info. [United States] : George Gershwin Music : Ira Gershwin Music : WB Music, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  M1503.G376 S52 1998    Available  ---
Description 1 vocal score (346, xxvi pages) ; 32 cm
vocal score
accompaniment reduced for keyboard
Note Musical comedy.
"Critical edition of the restored 1927 production"--Jacket.
Appendix includes songs written for the 1930 production.
Contents ACT 1. Overture -- No.1. Fletcher's American Cheese Choral Society (Timothy, Sloane, Fletcher, Workers) -- No. 2. Seventeen and twenty-one (Timothy, Anne) -- No. 3. A typical self-made American (Fletcher, Jim, Workers) -- No. 4. Meadow serenade (Jim, Joan) -- No. 5. The unofficial spokesman (Fletcher, Holmes, Chorus) -- No. 6. Patriotic rally (Chorus) -- No. 7. The man I love (Joan, Jim) -- No. 8. Yankee Doodle Rhythm (Spelvin, Chorus) -- No. 9. Seventeen and twenty-one : reprise (Mrs. Draper, Fletcher) -- No. 10. Finaletto, Act. I (Jim, Fletcher, Sloane, Timothy, Joan, Chorus) -- No. 10A. Fanfare No. 1 -- No. 11. Strike up the band (Timothy, Chorus) -- ACT II. No. 12. Oh, this is such a lovely war (Soldiers, Swiss girls) -- No. 12A. Come-look-at-the-war Choral Society (Women) -- No. 13. Hoping that someday you'd care (Jim, Joan) -- No. 14. Military dancing drill (Timothy, Anne, Chorus) -- No. 15. How about a man (Fletcher, Holmes, Mrs. Draper) -- No. 16. Finaletto, Act II (Joan, Jim, Holmes, Sloane, Fletcher, Spelvin, Chorus) -- No. 17. Homeward bound/The girl I love (Soldiers) -- No. 18. The war that ended war (Girls, Soldiers) -- No. 18A. Fanfare No. 2 -- No. 19. Finale ultimo (Jim, Joan, Fletcher, Chorus) -- APPENDIX. I mean to say (Anne, Timothy) -- Soon (Jim, Joan) -- If I became the President (Mrs. Draper, Holmes) -- Hangin' around with you (Anne, Timothy) -- Mademoiselle in New Rochelle (Holmes, Gideon) -- I've got a crush on you (Anne, Timothy) -- How about a boy like me? (Mrs. Draper, Fletcher, Holmes, Gideon) -- Ding Dong (Chorus) -- Critical notes.
Subject Musicals -- Vocal scores with piano.
Musicals -- Vocal scores with piano.
Musicals.
Genre/Form Vocal scores.
Vocal scores.
Added Author Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961, librettist.
Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983, lyricist.
Bowen, Steven D., editor.
Added Title Strike up the band. Vocal score
Other Form: Online version: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Strike up the band. Vocal score. Strike up the band. [United States] : George Gershwin Music : Ira Gershwin Music : WB Music, ©1998 (OCoLC)639643985
ISBN 0769266649
9780769266640
Standard No. 029156953046
Music No. 0305B Warner Bros. Publications