This exemplary new edition of the vocal score of an enchanting operetta
-- which has delighted audiences for over a century with its catchy
melodies, its witty lyrics, and its madcap tale of tender-hearted
pirates, timid policemen, and the demands of duty -- was prepared by
musicologists Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones, who returned to
original manuscripts and early sources to produce handsome, newly
engraved plates closest to Gilbert and Sullivan's original intentions.
All of the voice parts appear here, in addition to a piano reduction of
the full score and the complete libretto. Introduction by the editors.
Contents. Instrumentation.