The Mikado - Instrumentation
The Mikado 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.
Hear the arrangment
Here are some MP3s of parts of the Mikado arrangement from a performance by Eastleigh Operatic and Musical Society in 2003:
| Song | Size |
|---|---|
| Overture & No. 1 | 13 Mb |
| Three little maids | 1.4 Mb |
| End Finale Act I | 2.1 Mb |
There are a few extracts from Southampton Operatic Society's 2007 production using this arrangment on YouTube, here's the Act I opening:
Also viewable:
- Three little maids
- So please you sir
- Behold the lord high executioner
- List song
- I am so proud
- The sun whose rays
- Madrigal
- A more humane Mikado
- Here's a how-de-do
- The criminal cried
- Tit Willow
- There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
Page Samples
Here are some sample pages from various parts of the Mikado arrangement in PDF form.
- Selection from the score
- Finale Act II, Clarinet part
- Pish-Tush's song, Horn part
- Start of Comes a train, Piano part