List of patter songs
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A list of patter songs.
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[edit] Pre-Gilbert and Sullivan
- 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)
- Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia – "Largo al factotum", final section (Figaro)
- Rossini: La Cenerentola – "Sia qualunque delle figlie", final section (Don Magnifico)
- Franz Schubert: From Winterreise, "Ruckblick"
[edit] Gilbert and Sullivan
- Sullivan: The Gondoliers – "In enterprise of martial kind" (Duke of Plaza-Toro)
- Sullivan: The Gondoliers – "Rising early in the morning" (Giuseppe)
- Sullivan: The Grand Duke – "Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow" (Rudolph)
- Sullivan: The Grand Duke – "Sing Diamonds Hearts Spades and Clubs" (Quintette)
- Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore – "When I Was a Lad" (Sir Joseph)
- Sullivan: Iolanthe – "When you're lying awake" (Lord Chancellor)
- Sullivan: The Mikado – "I've got a little list" (Ko-Ko)
- Sullivan: Patience – "If you want a receipt for that popular mystery" (Colonel Calverly)
- Sullivan: Patience – "So go to him and say to him" (Bunthorne and Lady Jane)
- Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General Stanley)
- Sullivan: Princess Ida – "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am" (King Gama)
- Sullivan: Princess Ida – "Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke" (King Gama)
- Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin)
- Sullivan: Ruddigore – "Henceforth all the crimes that I find in the Times" (Robin)
- 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) and Thoroughly Modern Millie.
- Sullivan: The Sorcerer – "My name is John Wellington Wells" (J. W. Wells)
- Sullivan: Trial by Jury – "When I, good friends, was called to the bar" (the Learned Judge)
- Sullivan: Utopia, Limited – "Henceforward of a verity" (King Paramount, Scaphio, Phantis and chorus)
- Sullivan: Utopia, Limited – "It's understood, I think, all round" (Scaphio, Phantis, Zara and Fitzbattleaxe)
- Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "I've Jibe and Joke... I've wisdom from the East and from the West" (Jack Point)
- Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Jack Point)
[edit] After G&S: operetta, popular music, musicals, and miscellaneous
- Bart: Oliver! – "Reviewing the situation" (Fagin)
- Coleman: "Museum Song" from Barnum
- Coward: "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
- Richard Fariña: "Hard-Loving Loser"
- German: Merrie England – "I do counsel that your playtime" (Wilkins)
- German: Merrie England – "King Neptune sat on his lonely throne" (Wilkins)
- Holmes: The Mystery of Edwin Drood – "Both Sides of the Coin" (duet)
- Kander & Ebb: "The Money Song" from Cabaret
- Kander & Ebb: "We Both Reached For The Gun" from Chicago
- Lehrer: "The Elements" (set to the tune of the Major-General's Song)
- Lerner & Loewe: "My Mother’s Wedding Day" from Brigadoon
- Porter: "Let’s Not Talk About Love" from Let's Face It!
- Rowe: "Words, Words, Words from The Witches of Eastwick
- Sondheim: Company – "Getting Married Today" (Amy)
- Stilgoe: "William Pratt" (set to the tune of the Major-General's Song)
- Willson: The Music Man – "Rock Island (opening sequence)"
- Willson: The Music Man – "Trouble in River City"
- Various: Animaniacs – "Yakko's World", "The US State Capitols", "The Presidents" and many other songs from the animated TV series
- Weill: Lady in the Dark – "Tchaikovsky (and Other Russians)"
