Name: A British Tar (arr. Philip Le Bas) by Philip Le Bas TTBB Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Philip Le Bas
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A British Tar (arr. Philip Le Bas)
by Philip Le Bas TTBB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title A British Tar (arr. Philip Le Bas)

Artist Philip Le Bas

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Philip Le Bas

Composer A Sullivan & W S Gilbert

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 7

Arrangement TTBB Choir

Publisher Philip Le Bas

Level 3

Product ID 1593915

Genre A Cappella Barbershop Opera 19th Century Comedy

Instruments Choir

Product Description

"A British Tar" is one of the most popular songs from Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "HMS Pinafore", and it deserves to be sung more widely. Here it is arranged by Philip Le Bas for unaccompanied barbershop quartet from the original trio plus orchestra/piano. In the operetta the song is supposedly composed by Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty, "to encourage independence of thought and action in the lower branches of the service [the Navy], and to teach the principle that a British sailor is any man's equal." It should be sung with as much mock pomp as can be mustered, and the arranger suggests that in bars 10 to 16 and again bars 42 to 48 the first bass singer(s) should (especially when singing to a foreign audience) clearly indicate which part of the sailor's body is being referred to!

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