List of patter songs

This is a list of some of the best known patter songs.

Pre-Gilbert and Sullivan
  • Auber: Le domino noir – "Je suis sauvée enfin"
  • Cornelius: The Barber of Baghdad – "Bin Akademiker, Doktor und Chemiker"
  • Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore – "Udite, Udite, o rustici", middle section (Dulcamara)
  • Donizetti: Don Pasquale – "Cheti, cheti, immantinente", final section (duet for Don Pasquale and Doctor Malatesta)
  • Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila – Farlaf's Rondo «Близок уж час торжества моего» (Farlaf)
  • Mozart: Marriage of Figaro – "La vendetta, oh, la vendetta", final section (Bartolo)
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni – "Fin ch'han dal vino" (Don Giovanni)
  • Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio – "Solche hergelaufne Laffen", especially the final section of the aira (Osmin)
  • Mozart: "Clarice cara mia sposa", aria for Tenor, K. 256
  • Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia – "Largo al factotum", final section (Figaro); "A un dottor de la mia sorte" (Bartolo)
  • Rossini: La Cenerentola – "Sia qualunque delle figlie", final section (Don Magnifico)
  • Rossini: "La Danza"
  • Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims – "Medaglie incomparabili" (Don Profondo)
  • Offenbach: La jolie parfumeuse – "Neighbors Chorus"

Gilbert and Sullivan
  • Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand: Cox and Box – "My Master Is Punctual" (Mr. Cox)[1][2]
  • Gilbert and Sullivan (referred to below as "Sullivan"): The Gondoliers – "In enterprise of martial kind" (Duke of Plaza-Toro)[3]
  • Sullivan: The Gondoliers – "Rising early in the morning" (Giuseppe)[4]
  • Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore – "When I Was a Lad" (Sir Joseph)[4]
  • Sullivan: Iolanthe – "When you're lying awake" (Lord Chancellor)(the "Nightmare song")[4][5]
  • Sullivan: The Mikado – "As someday it may happen" (Ko-Ko)[6]
  • Sullivan: Patience – "If you want a receipt for that popular mystery" (Colonel Calverley)[7]
  • Sullivan: Patience – "If you're anxious for to shine" (Bunthorne)[7]
  • Sullivan: Patience – "So go to him and say to him" (Bunthorne and Lady Jane)[7]
  • Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General Stanley)[6] Tom Lehrer wrote a pastiche of the song called "The Elements".[8]
  • Sullivan: Princess Ida – "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am" (King Gama)[4]
  • Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin)[4]
  • Sullivan: Ruddigore – "Henceforth all the crimes that I find in the Times" (Robin)[9]
  • Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My eyes are fully open to my awful situation" (Robin, Despard, and Margaret). This song was adapted for use in the Broadway revivals of The Pirates of Penzance (Papp production, 1980) and Thoroughly Modern Millie as "The Speed Test".[10]
  • Sullivan: The Sorcerer – "My name is John Wellington Wells" (J. W. Wells)[4]
  • Sullivan: Trial by Jury – "When I, good friends, was called to the bar" (the Learned Judge)[4][11]
  • Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "I've Jibe and Joke. ... I've wisdom from the East and from the West" (Jack Point)[12]
  • Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Jack Point)[4]

After G&S: selected showtunes

Notes
  1. Florip, Daniel. "Cox and Box and Trial by Jury do UMGASS proud", The Gasbag, Friends of the University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Vol. 37, No. 2, Issue 234, Autumn 2006, p. 16
  2. Eden and Saremba, p. 99
  3. Lyrics to "In enterprise of martial kind", The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Archived 2008-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Shepherd, Marc. "Nelson Eddy: Patter Songs from Gilbert and Sullivan" Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine at A Gilbert and Sullivan Discography
  5. Williams, p. 23
  6. Eden, David (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. Cambridge University Press. p. 106. The list patter song['s] ... most famous examples are 'I am the very model of a modern Major-General' ... and 'As someday it may happen'.
  7. Ainger, p. 196
  8. Shepherd, Marc. "Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements' and 'Clementine' (1959)", The Gilbert and Sullivan Discography, 5 October 2008, accessed December 15, 2017
  9. Bradley, p. 732
  10. Henderson, Kathy. "Speed Test! Check Out Our Video Roundup of the Fastest Patter Songs, from Company, Godspell & More", Broadway.com, August 5, 2013, accessed June 24, 2016
  11. Article and links about "The Judge's Song", The Victorian Web
  12. Lister, p. 23
  13. Stone, Martin. "Little Shop of Horrors: Cross-Pollinization!", Mondo Musicals, August 25, 2010, accessed February 7, 2017
  14. Siegel, Naomi (November 17, 1994). "Dramatically rich 'Oliver' on Mill stage" (PDF). The Item. Millburn and Short Hills. Retrieved January 14, 2019. The patter song, 'Reviewing the Situation,' with its echoes of the Yiddish theater, trips from his lips with precision.
  15. Hischak, Thomas. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, Oxford University Press, p. 51 ISBN 0195335333
  16. Fisher, Jeremy (2014). Successful Singing Auditions. A&C Black. p. 56. ISBN 9781408176863.
  17. Liner, Elaine (October 10, 2009). "WaterTower Theatre's Grey Gardens: Shades of Glamour Amid Stray Cats and Corn". The Dallas Observer. Retrieved June 8, 2019. She kicks off Act 2, set in 1973 when she's in her 50s, with the show's patter-song, 'The Revolutionary Costume for Today.'
  18. Farrington, Jan. "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!", TheaterJones.com, October 22, 2014, accessed June 24, 2016
  19. Holden, Stephen. "Extrovert and Introvert: Refined Musical Clowns", The New York Times, December 9, 2009, accessed February 7, 2018
  20. Tuck, Lon (May 16, 1987). "The Gershwin Gold". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 8, 2019. How about the superb patter song that brings the first act to an end? It is called 'The Mophams' ...
  21. Tuck, Lon (July 10, 1977). "Porgy and Bess". The Washington Post. ... the sardonic patter song ('It Ain't Necessarily So;) ...
  22. Lambert, Philip (Dec 10, 2010). To Broadway, To Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick. Oxford University Press. p. 228. ISBN 9780199781034. ...the earlier jazz-inflected Bock-Harnick patter song 'Tonight at Eight' from She Loves Me.
  23. Filichia, Peter (May 9, 2017). "The Newest Dolly on the Newest Recording". Masterworks Broadway. Sony Music Entertainment. Retrieved January 14, 2019. The real lagniappe is “Penny in My Pocket.” This patter song that originally ended the first act when Dolly was trying out in Detroit was an elaborate production number.
  24. Frankel, Aaron (2009). Writing the Broadway Musical. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780786752027.
  25. "Big River". The Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved June 8, 2019. "What's a Nonesuch?" asks one of the townsfolk. 'Well,' says the Duke, launching into his rhyme-a-second patter song.
  26. Friswold, Paul (August 10, 2016). "Stray Dog's Bat Boy: The Musical Is Hauntingly Therapeutic". The Riverfront Times. Retrieved June 8, 2019. ... the excellent patter song 'Show You a Thing or Two.'
  27. Atkinson, Brooks (October 30, 1941). "The Play In Review: 'Let's Face It!'". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2019. 'Let's Not Talk About Love' restores the patter song to its ancient eminence as a test of memory and wind.
  28. Laird, Paul R. (2014). The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz: From Godspell to Wicked and Beyond. Scarecrow press. p. 78. ISBN 9780810891920.
  29. Westwood, Matthew. "Songs in the key of the Sherman brothers", The Australian, July 27, 2010
  30. Weiss, Hedy. "Writers Theatre sets a blistering look at marriage in Company", Chicage Sun-Times, June 23, 2016
  31. Isenberg, Barbara (April 18, 2010). "In Sondheim's company". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 8, 2019. There's always a patter song like 'Mr. Goldstone' in [Sondheim's] scores. For [Patti LuPone's] first entrance in 'Sweeney Todd' as Mrs. Lovett, [she] had to sing 'The Worst Pies in London,' another of those patter songs.
  32. Coe, Richard (March 11, 1979). "Two Musical High Notes". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 14, 2019. With 'A Little Priest,' a patter song of dazzling verbosity, Act I ends at the pinnacle of sophisticated whimsy, a black joke of fiendish ingenuity.
  33. Holden, Stephen (November 21, 1985). "New Sondheim Lyrics Give Streisand Album Historic Tone". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 8, 2019. Another revised Sondheim song, 'Putting It Together,' opens 'The Broadway Album.' This patter song from 'Sunday in the Park With George' ...
  34. Richards, David (February 9, 1990). "Merrily We Roll Along". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 8, 2019. ... he delivers the patter song, "Franklin Shepard, Inc.," dazzlingly.
  35. Dale, Michael. "Videos: Chicago's Jason Danieley Holds a Note for Longer Than It Takes Danny Kaye to Sing 'Tchaikovsky'", BroadwayWorld.com, April 8, 2016
  36. Harris, Kathryn. "Musicals in the Media: the Scrubs Musical", Music Theatre International, March 9, 2010, accessed June 9, 2019
  37. Mendoza, N. F. "Shows for Youngsters and Their Parents Too: A sense of history and smarts set Fox's Animaniacs apart", Los Angeles Times, December 26, 1993, accessed June 24, 2016
  38. Sutherland, Lori Archer. "'The Flim Flam Cider Song' by Daniel Ingram", TonalDiversions.com, April 1, 2016, accessed February 7, 2017
  39. Neethling, Bertie. (2016). "Names in Songs: A Comparative Analysis of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire and Christopher Torr's Hot Gates" in C. Hough (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming.
  40. Self, Geoffrey. Light Music in Britain since 1870: A Survey, Routledge (2017) ISBN 1351560166
  41. Doll, Christopher (2017). Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era. University of Michigan Press. pp. 266.
  42. Blanchette, Kyle. "Top 10 Disney Holiday Specials!", Moviepilot.com, November 30, 2015, accessed June 24, 2016
  43. Laurence, Robin. "Geoffrey Farmer fêted in new Vancouver Art Gallery show", Straight.com, May 27, 2015, accessed June 24, 2016

Sources
  • Ainger, Michael (2002). Gilbert and Sullivan – A Dual Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514769-8.
  • Bradley, Ian (1996). The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816503-X.
  • Eden, David; Meinhard Saremba (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88849-3.
  • Lister, Linda (2018). So You Want to Sing Light Opera: A Guide for Performers. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-442-26939-2.
  • Williams, Carolyn (2010). Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14804-7.
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