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Arthur Sullivan

Patience

Movements

  1. Overture

Act I

  1. 2. “Still Brooding on Their Mad Infatuation” (Patience, Saphir, Angela, Chorus)
  2. 2a. “I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be” (Patience, Chorus)
  3. 3a. “If You Want a Receipt for That Popular Mystery” (Colonel, Chorus)
  4. 3b. “Though Men of Rank May Useless Seem” (Duke)
  5. 4. “In a Doleful Train Two and Two We Walk” (Angela, Ella, Saphir, Bunthorne, Chorus of Maidens and Dragoons)
  6. 6. “Am I Alone and Unobserved?” (Bunthorne)
  7. 6. “If You’re Anxious for to Shine” (Bunthorne)
  8. 7. “Long Years Ago, Fourteen Maybe” (Patience, Angela)
  9. 8. “Prithee, Pretty Maiden” (Patience, Grosvenor)
  10. 8a. “Though to Marry You Would Very Selfish Be” (Patience, Grosvenor)
  11. Finale. 9. “Let the Merry Cymbals Sound” (Maidens)
  12. Finale. 9. “Now Tell Us, We Pray You” (Dragoons)
  13. Finale. 9. “Heart-broken at My Patience’s Barbarity” (Bunthorne)
  14. Finale. 9. “Stay, We Implore You, Before Our Hopes Are Blighted” (Dragoons)
  15. Finale. 9. “Your Maiden Hearts, Ah, Do Not Steel” (Duke, Dragoons, Maidens)
  16. Finale. 9. “Come, Walk Up, and Purchase With Avidity” (Bunthorne, Maidens)
  17. Finale. 9. “We’ve Been Thown Over, We’re Aware” (Dragoons)
  18. Finale. 9. “And Are You Going a Ticket for to Buy?” (Bunthorne, Jane)
  19. Finale. 9. “Hold! Stay Your Hand!” (Patience, Jane, Bunthorne, Ensemble)
  20. Finale. 9. “True Love Must Single-hearted Be” (Patience, Bunthorne, Colonel, Major, Saphir, Angela)
  21. Finale. 9. “I Hear the Soft Note of the Echoing Voice” (Angela, Saphir, Ella, Colonel, Duke, Major)
  22. Finale. 9. “But Who Is This, Whose God-like Grace” (Angela, Grosvenor, Bunthorne, Patience, Ensemble)
  23. Finale. 9. “List Reginald, While I Confess” (Patience, Ensemble)
  24. “Twenty Love-Sick Maidens We” (Chorus of Maidens)

Act 1

  1. No. 3, The Soldiers of our Queen (Chorus of Dragoons)

Act II

  1. 10. “On Such Eyes as Maidens Cherish” (Chorus of Maidens)
  2. 11. “Sad Is That Woman’s Lot” (Jane)
  3. 11. “Silvered Is the Raven’s Hair” (Jane)
  4. 12. “Turn, Oh Turn, in This Direction” (Chorus of Maidens)
  5. 13. “A Magnet Hung in a Hardware Shop” (Grosvenor, Chorus of Maidens)
  6. 14. “Love Is a Plaintive Song” (Patience)
  7. 15. “So Go to Him, and Say to Him” (Jane, Bunthorne)
  8. 16. “It’s Clear That Mediaeval Art” (Duke, Major, Colonel)
  9. 17. “If Saphir I Choose to Marry” (Angela, Saphir, Duke, Major, Colonel)
  10. 18. “When I Go Out of Door” (Bunthorne, Grosvenor)
  11. 19. “I’m a Waterloo House Young Man” (Grosvenor, Chorus of Maidens)
  12. 20. “After Much Debate Internal” (Ensemble)

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