Table of Contents
Come join us now, and enjoy playing your beloved music and browse through great scores of every level and styles!
Can’t find the songbook you’re looking for? Please, email us at: sheetmusiclibrarypdf@gmail.com We’d like to help you!
Carousel Waltz — from the Musical Carousel by Richard Rodgers (Piano Solo sheet music, Noten)
Carousel is the second musical from the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár’s 1909 play Liliom, which transplanted its Budapest setting to the Maine coast.
Best Sheet Music download from our Library.
It is a love story between Billy Bigelow, the worker of a horse attraction and a miller, Julie Jordan, which puts their jobs in danger. In order to help Julie and her unborn child, he tries to pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Despite everything, he is given the opportunity to do things right.
A secondary plot line deals with mill worker Carrie Pipperidge and her romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow. The show includes the well-known songs ‘If I Loved You’, ‘June Is Bustin’ Out All Over’ and ‘Never Walk Alone’. Richard Rodgers later wrote that Carousel was his favorite of all his musicals.
After the spectacular success of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s early musicals, Oklahoma! (1943), the pair sought to collaborate on another piece, knowing that any resulting work would be compared to Oklahoma!, most likely unfavorably. Initially they were reluctant to seek the rights to Liliom; Molnár had refused permission to adapt the play in the past, and the original ending was considered depressing for musical theater.
Please, subscribe to our Library.
If you are already a subscriber, please, check our NEW SCORES’ page every month for new sheet music. THANK YOU!
After acquiring the rights, the team created a work with long music sequences and made the ending more hopeful.
The musical required considerable modification during out-of-town tryouts, but once it opened on Broadway on April 19, 1945, it was an immediate hit with critics and audiences. Carousel initially ran for around 890 performances and doubled its success in the West End in 1950. Although it has never achieved as much commercial success as Oklahoma!, the play has been repeated and recorded several times.
A production by Nicholas Hytner was successful in 1992 in London, in 1994 in New York and on tour. In 1999, Time magazine named Carousel the best musical of the 20th century.
Rodgers designed Carousel to be an almost continuous stream of music, especially in Act 1. In later years, Rodgers was asked if he had considered writing an opera. He stated that he had been sorely tempted to, but saw Carousel in operatic terms. He remembered, “We came very close to opera in the Majestic Theatre. … There’s much that is operatic in the music.”
| Artist or Composer / Score name | Cover | List of Contents |
|---|---|---|
| Essential Piano Repertoire 1 Keith Snell |
 | Essential Piano Repertoire 1 Keith Snell |
| Essential Piano Repertoire Level 2 (from 17th, 18th and 19th Cent.) by Keith Snell |
 | Essential Piano Repertoire Level 2 (from 17th, 18th and 19th Cent.) by Keith Snell |
| Essential Piano Repertoire Level 3 (from 17th 18th and 19th Cent.) |
 | Essential Piano Repertoire Level 3 (from 17th, 18th and 19th Cent.) by Keith Snell |
| Essential Piano Repertoire Preparatory Level (from 17th 18th and 19th Cent.) |
 | Essential Piano Repertoire Preparatory Level (from 17th, 18th and 19th Cent.) |
| Essential Sightreading Studies for Electric Bass Volume 1 (David Motto) |
 | |
| Essential Songs For Trumpet |
 | Essential Songs For Trumpet |
| Ethan Iverson – The More It Changes |
 | |
| Ethan Iverson Carolina Shout (Piano Solo) |
 | |
| Ethnic Rhythms for Guitar with Tablature Book + MP3 Audio Play Along (embedded) by Jean Marc Belkadi |
 | |
| Etienne Daho Songbook |
 | Etienne Daho Songbook |
| Etta James Somethings Got A Hold On Me |
 | |
| Etta James Somethings Got A Hold On Me (From Burlesque) |
 | |
| Etta James – At Last | ||
| Etta James At Last (Transcription) Gordon and Warren | Etta James At Last (Transcription) Gordon and Warren | |
| Etude Op 10 No 3 E Major Tristesse – Chopin (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Etude Progressive Opus 46 No. 30 In E Major – Heller (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Etude_in_E_major_Moszkowski (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Eu sei que vou te amar | Eu sei que vou te amar | |
| Eu sei que vou te amar – Tom Jobim & Vinicius de Moraes |
 | |
| Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar Tom Jobim (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Eubie Blake 9 Original Compositions For Piano Solo Transcribed By Terry Waldo |
 | Eubie Blake 9 Original Compositions For Piano Solo Transcribed By Terry Waldo |
| Eugenie Rocherolle Treasures Late Elementary Early Intermediate seveb pieces piano solo |
 | Eugenie Rocherolle Treasures Late Elementary Early Intermediate seveb pieces piano solo |
| EURIDICE TANGO BOOK VOL.1 (grassa) | EURIDICE TANGO BOOK VOL.1 | |
| Europe – The Final Countdown | ||
| Europe – Tomorrow | ||
| Europe – Wings Of Tomorrow Guitar Songbook with TAB |
 |
 |
| Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams | ||
| Eurythmics Greatest Hits |
 | Eurythmics Greatest Hits |
| Eurythmics Ultimate Collection Piano Vocal Guitar |
 | Eurythmics Ultimate Collection Piano Vocal Guitar |
| Eva (Nightwish) | ||
| Eva Cassidy Songbook For Guitar with TAB |
 | Eva Cassidy Songbook For Guitar |
| Eva Cassidy The Best Of Eva Cassidy Piano, vocal, guitar |
 | Eva Cassidy The Best Of Eva Cassidy |
| Evanescence – All That Im Living For | ||
| Evanescence – Anywhere | ||
| Evanescence – Away From Me | ||
| Evanescence – Breathe No More | ||
| Evanescence – Bring Me To Life | ||
| Evanescence – Call Me When Youre Sober | ||
| Evanescence – Everybodys Fool | ||
| Evanescence – Exodus | ||
| Evanescence – Farther Away | ||
| Evanescence – Forgive Me (intro) | ||
| Evanescence – Good Enough | ||
| Evanescence – Goodnight | ||
| Evanescence – Goodnight Monki | ||
| Evanescence – Heart Shaped Box | ||
| Evanescence – Hello | ||
| Evanescence – Imaginary | ||
| Evanescence – Like You | ||
| Evanescence – Listen To The Rain (Piano arr.) |
 | |
| Evanescence – Lithium | ||
| Evanescence – My Immortal | ||
| Evanescence – My Last Breath | ||
| Evanescence – The Last Song Im Wasting On You | ||
| Evanescence – Wasted On You |
 | |
| Evanescence – Whisper | ||
| Evanescence Anywhere But Home Songbook |
 | Evanescence Anywhere But Home Songbook |
| Evanescence Fallen Piano Songbook |
 | Evanescence Fallen Piano Songbook |
| Eve Kaikai Kitan Jujutsu Kaisen (Piano) | Eve Kaikai Kitan Jujutsu Kaisen (Piano) | |
| Evening Prayer by Engelbert Humperdinck | Evening Prayer by Engelbert Humperdinck | |
| Everest – Epilogue (Dario Marianelli) | ||
| Everette Harp By the Fireplace | Everette Harp By the Fireplace | |
| Everette Harp Hey Yeh (Sax) | Everette Harp Hey Yeh (Sax) | |
| Everette Harp Just As You Are | Everette Harp Just As You Are | |
| Everette Harp Love You To The Letter | Everette Harp Love You To The Letter | |
| Everlasting Summer by Sergey Eybog Guitar TABs arr. |
 | |
| Everlasting Summer OST by Sergey Eybog Piano Solo |
 | |
| Evert Taube – Sa skimrande var aldrig haver |
 | |
| Every Breath You Take – The Police (Piano) (Musescore file).mscz | Musescore File | |
| Every Season – Nicole Nordeman | ||
| Everybody Loves Raymond Theme by Rick Marotta Piano Solo |
 | |
| Everybody’s Favorite Piano Duets (Vintage Sheet Music) |
 | Everybody’s Favorite Piano Duets (Vintage Sheet Music) |
| Everybody’s Favorite Piano Pieces (1933) |
 | Everybodys Favorite Piano Pieces |
| Everything I Do Love Theme From Robin Hood |
 | |
| Everything is illuminated (easier version) Paul Cantelon | ||
| Everything is illuminated (Paul Cantelon) | ||
| Everytime You Go Away by Daryl Hall & John Oates (Paul Young) |
 | |
| Evita – Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (Sheet Music) – Andrew Lloyd Webber |
 | |
| Evita – I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You | Evita I’d-Be-Surprisingly-Good-For-You | |
| Evita – You Must Love Me – Madonna | Evita-You-Must-Love-Me-Madonna | |
| Evita The Musical Songbook |
 | Evita The Musical Songbook |
| Evolution Of Blues Piano (Book) by Ron Drotos |
 | Evolution Of Blues Piano (Book) by Ron Drotos |
| Ewan Mcgregor ft. Nicole Kidman – Come What May | ||
| Exercises For The Jazz Musician by Charles McNeal |
 | |
| Exodus Ernest Gold (Piano Solo Arr. By Richard Clayderman) |
 | |
| Exodus – Ernest Gold Arr. By Richard Clayderman (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Expanding Walking Bass Lines With Embedded Audio Mp3 |
 | Expanding Walking Bass lines |
| Eyes On Me (From Final Fantasy Viii) Nobuo Uematsu (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| F. Sor Introduction To Guitar Study (25 Etudes) Op. 60 (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Für Elise 100 Easy Original Classical Piano Pieces |
 | Für Elise 100 Easy Original Classical Piano Pieces |
| Fabrizio De Andre Andrea | Fabrizio De Andre Andrea | |
| Fabrizio De Andre Il Pescatore Guitar lyrics | Fabrizio De Andre Il Pescatore Guitar lyrics | |
| Fabrizio De Andre Il Pescatore Piano lyrics | Fabrizio De Andre Il Pescatore Piano lyrics | |
| Fabrizio De Andre Lultimo Trovatore (Book In Italian) |
 | |
| Fabrizio De Andre Sheet music |
 | Fabrizio De Andre Sheet music |
| Fabrizio Paterlini Dawn | Fabrizio Paterlini Dawn | |
| Fabrizio Paterlini Broken |
 | |
| Fabrizio Paterlini Conversation With Myself |
 | |
| Fabrizio Paterlini Silent Eyes | Fabrizio Paterlini Silent Eyes | |
| Fabrizio Paterlini The Best of |
 | Fabrizio Paterlini – The Best of Contents |
| Fabrizio Paterlini Wind Song | Fabrizio Paterlini Wind Song | |
| Fado A Minha Casinha Arr Silvestre Fonseca |
 | |
| Fado Foi Deus Arr Silvestre Fonseca |
 | |
| Fado Madragoa Arr Silvestre Fonseca arr. for guitar | Fado Madragoa Arr Silvestre Fonseca arr. for guitar | |
| Fado Nem As Paredes Confesso Arr Silvestre Fonseca for guitar |
 | |
| Fado Rosinha Dos Limoes arr. for Piano (für Klavier) by Wilfried Wachter) |
 | |
| Fado – Amalia Rodrigues Foi Deus Arr. Guitarra & TAB por S.R. Cavaco | Fado – Amalia Rodrigues Foi Deus Arr. Guitarra & TAB por S.R. Cavaco | |
| Fado – Tudo Isto E Fado Arr Silvestre Fonseca for guitar | Fado – Tudo Isto E Fado Arr Silvestre Fonseca for guitar | |
| Fado Portuguese Folk Song Arr. For Guitar |
 | |
| Fados (original) arr. for guitar by Duarte Costa | Fados (original) arr. for guitar by Duarte Costa | |
| Faith Hill – There Youll Be | ||
| Faith Hill – Where Are You Christmas | ||
| Faith No More – Easy Like Sunday Morning | ||
| Fake Book – 150 American Jazz Standards | Fake Book – 150 American Jazz Standards | |
| Fake Book Best Fake Book Ever, The over 1000 songs 2nd Ed. for keyboards, vocal, guitar and all C instruments |
 | |
| Fall Out Boy – Dance Dance | ||
| Fall Out Boy – Golden | ||
| Fall Out Boy – This Aint A Scene Its An Arms Race | ||
| Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs | ||
| Falling Slowly EASY Piano arr. OST from the film ONCE by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova | Falling Slowly EASY Piano arr. OST from the film ONCE by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova 1st page | |
| Falling Slowly OST from the film ONCE by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Piano Vocal Chords |
 | |
| Fallout 4 – End of the world | ||
| Fallout 4 – Main theme |
 | |
| Fallout 4 Main Theme piano solo sheet music |
 | |
| Fallout 4 Trailer | ||
| Fame The Musical |
 | Fame The Musical |
| Family Guy Theme (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Family Guy Theme by Walter Murphy Piano Solo and Guitar chords |
 | |
| Famous Jazz Guitar Solos arr. by Ivor Mairants (Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Django Renhardt, Albert Harris, Dick McDonough) |
 | Famous Jazz Guitar Solos |
| Famous Jazz Guitar Solos Transcriptions 2 (Joe Pass, Ivor Mairants, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Charlie Byrd) by Ivor Mairants |
 | Famous Jazz Guitar Solos Transcriptions 2 (Joe Pass, Ivor Mairants, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Charlie Byrd) by Ivor Mairants |
| Famous Ragtime arranged for Guitar Solo |
 | Famous Ragtime guitar |
| Fandango (Concierto Madrigal) Joaquin Rodrigo | ||
| Fantasia 2- The Final Challenge – Richard Harvey | ||
| Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis Keyboard (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Far Cry 5 When The Morning Light Shines in by Dan Romer Piano Solo |
 | |
| Far Cry 5 – Help Me Faith | Far Cry 5 – Help Me Faith | |
| Far Cry 5 – When The Morning Lights Shines In (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Far from the Madding Crowd – End Credits (Craig Armstrong) | ||
| Farm Boy FF VII (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Fats Domino 10 Rock’N Roll Hits Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar Chords |
 | Fats Domino 10 Rock’N Roll Hits Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar Chords |
| Fats Domino Blueberry Hill Easy Piano Vocal Guitar Chords | Fats Domino Blueberry Hill Easy Piano Vocal Guitar Chords | |
| Fats Domino Little Richard Raised On Rock and Roll Songbook |
 | Fats Domino Little Richard Raised On Rock and Roll Songbook |
| Fats Navarro – Anthropology Solo Transcription Jazz Standard |
 | |
| Fats Navarro Improvised Solos Transcription Trumpet in Bb sheet music |
 | Fats Navarro Improvised Solos Transcription Trumpet in Bb sheet music Contents |
| Fats Waller – Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Guitar Tablature TABs |
 | |
| Fats Waller – Bach Up To Me Jazz piano Transcription | Fats Waller – Bach Up To Me Jazz piano Transcription | |
| Fats Waller – Bach Up To Me Jazz Piano Transcription.mscz | ||
| Fats Waller – Bach up to me |
 | |
| Fats Waller – Honeysuckle Rose |
 | |
| Fats Waller – Stride The Music Of Fats Waller (book) |
 |
Musical numbers
| Act I “The Carousel Waltz” – Orchestra “You’re a Queer One, Julie Jordan” – Carrie Pipperidge and Julie Jordan “(When I Marry) Mister Snow” – Carrie “If I Loved You” – Billy Bigelow and Julie “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over” – Nettie Fowler and Chorus “(When I Marry) Mister Snow” (reprise) – Carrie, Enoch Snow and Female Chorus “When the Children Are Asleep” – Enoch and Carrie “Blow High, Blow Low” – Jigger Craigin, Billy and Male Chorus “Soliloquy” – Billy | Act II “This Was a Real Nice Clambake” – Carrie, Nettie, Julie, Enoch and Chorus “Geraniums in the Winder” – Enoch * “There’s Nothin’ So Bad for a Woman” – Jigger and Chorus “What’s the Use of Wond’rin’?” – Julie “You’ll Never Walk Alone” – Nettie “The Highest Judge of All” – Billy Ballet: “Billy Makes a Journey” – Orchestra “If I Loved You” (reprise) – Billy Finale: “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (reprise) – Company |
Rodgers uses music in Carousel in subtle ways to differentiate characters and tell the audience of their emotional state.
In “You’re a Queer One, Julie Jordan”, the music for the placid Carrie is characterized by even eighth-note rhythms, whereas the emotionally restless Julie’s music is marked by dotted eighths and sixteenths; this rhythm will characterize her throughout the show. When Billy whistles a snatch of the song, he selects Julie’s dotted notes rather than Carrie’s.
Reflecting the close association in the music between Julie and the as-yet unborn Louise, when Billy sings in “Soliloquy” of his daughter, who “gets hungry every night”, he uses Julie’s dotted rhythms. Such rhythms also characterize Julie’s Act 2 song, “What’s the Use of Wond’rin’”.
The stable love between Enoch and Carrie is strengthened by her willingness to let Enoch not only plan his entire life, but hers as well. This is reflected in “When the Children Are Asleep”, where the two sing in close harmony, but Enoch musically interrupts his intended’s turn at the chorus with the words “Dreams that won’t be interrupted”.
Rodgers biographer Geoffrey Block, in his book on the Broadway musical, points out that though Billy may strike his wife, he allows her musical themes to become a part of him and never interrupts her music.
Block suggests that, as reprehensible as Billy may be for his actions, Enoch requiring Carrie to act as “the little woman”, and his having nine children with her (more than she had found acceptable in “When the Children are Asleep”) can be considered to be even more abusive.
The twelve-minute “bench scene”, in which Billy and Julie get to know each other and which culminates with “If I Loved You”, according to Hischak, “is considered the most completely integrated piece of music-drama in the American musical theater”.
The scene is almost entirely drawn from Molnár and is one extended musical piece; Stephen Sondheim described it as “probably the single most important moment in the revolution of contemporary musicals”. “If I Loved You” has been recorded many times, by such diverse artists as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr., Mario Lanza and Chad and Jeremy.
The D-flat major theme that dominates the music for the second act ballet seems like a new melody to many audience members. It is, however, a greatly expanded development of a theme heard during “Soliloquy” at the line “I guess he’ll call me ‘The old man’ “.
When the pair discussed the song that would become “Soliloquy”, Rodgers improvised at the piano to give Hammerstein an idea of how he envisioned the song. When Hammerstein presented his collaborator with the lyrics after two weeks of work (Hammerstein always wrote the words first, then Rodgers would write the melodies), Rodgers wrote the music for the eight-minute song in two hours.
“What’s the Use of Wond’rin’ “, one of Julie’s songs, worked well in the show but was never as popular on the radio or for recording, and Hammerstein believed that the lack of popularity was because he had concluded the final line, “And all the rest is talk” with a hard consonant, which does not allow the singer a vocal climax.
Irving Berlin later stated that “You’ll Never Walk Alone” had the same sort of effect on him as the 23rd Psalm. When singer Mel Tormé told Rodgers that “You’ll Never Walk Alone” had made him cry, Rodgers nodded impatiently. “You’re supposed to.” The frequently recorded song has become a widely accepted hymn.
The cast recording of Carousel proved popular in Liverpool, like many Broadway albums, and in 1963, the Brian Epstein-managed band, Gerry and the Pacemakers had a number-one hit with the song. At the time, the top ten hits were played before Liverpool F.C. home matches; even after “You’ll Never Walk Alone” dropped out of the top ten, fans continued to sing it, and it has become closely associated with the soccer team and the city of Liverpool.
A BBC program, Soul Music, ranked it alongside “Silent Night” and “Abide With Me” in terms of its emotional impact and iconic status.
Browse in the Library:
Or browse in the categories menus & download the Library Catalog PDF: