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Iolanthe - Instrumentation

The Iolanthe arrangement requires nine players:

Flute (+picc.)
Violin
Oboe
Clarinet (The part is in A/Bb and Bb only versions. Both are supplied.)
Horn
Bassoon
Double Bass
Percussion ‡
Piano

A full conductors’ score is also supplied.

‡ Percussion: Two Timpani, Triangle, Snare drum, Cymbals and Bass drum (played together, military band style).

How to order this arrangement.

See the arrangment

Here are two extracts from the full score in PDF form:

• The Overture
• A selection of other pages

Hear the arrangment

There are some extracts from Southampton Operatic Society's 2005 production using this arrangment on YouTube, here's my favourite. The music starts one minute in:

Also viewable:

• Good morrow, good lover & none shall part us
• March of the Peers
• Act I finale, part 1
• Act I finale, part 2
• Act I finale, part 3
• When all night long
• When Britain really ruled the waves
• The Nightmare song

Other Operas Available

• The Mikado
• The Pirates of Penzance
• H.M.S.Pinafore
• Trial by Jury
• Patience
• Ruddigore
• Gondoliers
• Gondoliers