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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.
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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.
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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.”
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| Joe Hisaishi – Spirited Away Waltz Of Chihiro (Piano Solo Arr. Kyle Landry) |
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| Joe Hisaishi – Spirited Away Piano Solo Book |
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| Joe Hisaishi – Suites Of Spirited Away Cello Piano Sheet Music |
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| Joe Hisaishi – Summer Guitar Arr. With Tabs from the film Kikujiro (Kikujirō no Natsu) |
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| Joe Hisaishi – The Path Of The Wind (Easy Piano Solo) From The Film My Neighbor Totoro | Joe Hisaishi – The Path Of The Wind (Easy Piano Solo) From The Film My Neighbor Totoro | |
| Joe Hisaishi – The Path Of The Wind Kaze no Toori Michi (from My Neighbor Totoro) Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi – The Wind Forest (From ‘My Neighbor Totoro’) |
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| Joe Hisaishi – Totoro Theme (from My Neighbor Totoro) Guitar arr. with TABs |
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| Joe Hisaishi – Totoro Theme (Guitar arr. sheet music with TABs) | Joe Hisaishi – Totoro Theme (Guitar arr. sheet music with TABs) | |
| Joe Hisaishi – Tunnel of Wind (Kaze no Toori Michi) (from My Neighbor Totoro) Guitar arr. with TABs |
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| Joe Hisaishi – Waltz Of Chihiro (Spirited Away) Guitar Arr. With Tabs |
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| Joe Hisaishi and Yumi Kimura Studio Ghibli Best Hits Easy Level Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi Ask Me Why (Mother’s Message) from The Boy and The Heron film Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi Ask Me Why from The Boy and The Heron Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi Gake No Ue No Ponyo Sumi Shimamoto |
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| Joe Hisaishi Howl’s Moving Castle Theme (Alto Saxophone and Piano Duet) Musescore File.mscz | ||
| Joe Hisaishi Jealousy (My Lost City) Piano | Joe Hisaishi Jealousy | |
| Joe Hisaishi Karma | Joe Hisaishi Karma | |
| Joe Hisaishi Kaze Tachinu Tabiji from the Wind Raises Piano solo | Hisaishi Kaze Tachinu Tabiji from the Wind Raises Piano solo | |
| Joe Hisaishi Kids Return Joe Hisaishi Meets Kitano Films | Joe Hisaishi Kids Return | |
| Joe Hisaishi Kiki Delivery Service Yasashisa Ni Tsutsumareta Nara |
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| Joe Hisaishi Kiki’s Delivery Service Umi No Mieru Machi Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi La Puta Castle In The Sky Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi Laputa Castle In The Sky |
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| Joe Hisaishi Merry Go Round Of Life Howl’s Moving Castle For Alto Saxophone Musescore File.mscz | ||
| Joe Hisaishi Merry Go Round Of Life Jacob Koller piano arr. (Howl’s moving Castle) | Joe Hisaishi Merry Go Round Of Life Jacob Koller piano arr. (Howl’s moving Castle) | |
| Joe Hisaishi My Neighbour Totoro (full songbook) |
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| Joe Hisaishi Nahoko (An Unexpected Meeting) The Wind Rises |
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| Joe Hisaishi Nahoko (I Miss You) From The Wind Rises Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi Piano Stories (selection) | Joe Hisaishi Piano Stories (selection) | |
| Joe Hisaishi Piano stories I |
 | Joe Hisaishi Piano Stories I contents —- Joe Hisaishi Piano stories I |
| Joe Hisaishi Piano stories II |
 | Joe Hisaishi Piano stories II contents —– Joe Hisaishi Piano stories II |
| Joe Hisaishi Piano stories III |
 | Joe Hisaishi Piano stories III |
| Joe Hisaishi Piano stories IV |
 | Joe Hisaishi Piano stories IV |
| Joe Hisaishi Ponyo Ponyo On The Cliff |
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| Joe Hisaishi Porco Rosso Piano Solo Album |
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| Joe Hisaishi PORCO ROSSO, piano solo, ABRSM Grade 8 2025-26 sheet music |
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| Joe Hisaishi Princess Mononoke |
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| Joe Hisaishi Princesse Mononoke Legend of’Ashitaka Easy Piano solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi Princesse Mononoke Legend of’Ashitaka Piano solo sheet music |
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| Joe Hisaishi Summer (Piano Solo Sheet Music) from the film Kikujiro (Kikujirō no Natsu) |
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| Joe Hisaishi Tears Of Sosuke From Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi The Great Collapse from The Boy and the Heron OST Piano Solo 大崩壊 「君たちはどう生きるか」より | Joe Hisaishi The Great Collapse from The Boy and the Heron OST Piano Solo 大崩壊 「君たちはどう生きるか」より | |
| Joe Hisaishi The Legend Of The Wind Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind |
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| Joe Hisaishi The Rain (for violin and piano, and for piano solo) Joe Hisaishi Meets Kitano Films | Joe Hisaishi The Rain (for violin and piano, and for piano solo) | |
| Joe Hisaishi The Rain Piano Solo arr. | Joe Hisaishi The Rain Piano Solo arr. | |
| Joe Hisaishi The Sixth Station from Spirited Away |
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| Joe Hisaishi The Wind Rises Naoko Crossing Paths | Joe Hisaishi The Wind Rises Naoko Crossing Paths | |
| Joe Hisaishi The Wind Rises A Journey (Dream Of A Flight) Piano Solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi The Wind Rises Kaze Tachinu Piano solo |
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| Joe Hisaishi Totoro Piano 4 Hands |
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| Joe Hisaishi- First Love | Joe Hisaishi First Love | |
| Joe Hisashi – Always with me (Anime films) |
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| Joe Iconis Joey Is A Punk Rocker |
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| Joe Jackson – Be My Number Two | ||
| Joe Jackson Anthology Piano Vocal Guitar Chords |
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| Joe Lovano Songs, Solo Transcriptions And Exercises for saxophone |
 | Joe Lovano Songs, Solo Transcriptions And Exercises for saxophone |
| Joe Pass The Joe Pass Guitar Method |
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| Joe Pass Legend Player Guitar with TABs |
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| Joe Pass – 13 simple techniques for harmonising melodies | Joe Pass – 13 simple techniques for harmonising melodies | |
| Joe Pass – Ain’t Misbehavin Transcription For Guitar |
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| Joe Pass – Blue Moon Guitar Jazz Standard | Joe Pass – Blue Moon Guitar Jazz Standard | |
| Joe Pass – Blues (guitar) |
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| Joe Pass – Blues (Guitar) (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Joe Pass – How High The Moon (Jazz Standard) – arr. Guitar | Joe Pass – How High The Moon (Jazz Standard) – arr. Guitar | |
| Joe Pass – Joe Pass On Guitar -Jazz Lines book + MP3 audio tracks to play along) |
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| Joe Pass – Omnibook For C instruments Transcribed exactly from his recorded solos with Tablature |
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| Joe Pass – The Blue Side of Jazz (Booklet Jazz Guitar lesson pdf) | Joe Pass – The Blue Side of Jazz (Booklet Jazz Guitar lesson) |
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| Joe Pass – Virtuoso Standards guitar songbook collection with Tablature |
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| Joe Pass & Roland Leone – Note For Note (Mel Bay) guitar with tablature |
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| Joe Pass And Herb Ellis Jazz Duets Guitar |
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| Joe Pass Blues, Chords and Substitutions Chord Encounters for Guitar Book 1 + Audio Mp3 Tracks To Play Along |
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| Joe Pass Chord Solos |
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| Joe Pass Collection with Tablature, The |
 | The Joe Pass Collection |
| Joe Pass Genius Of Joe Pass (Book) by Jim Ohlschmidt (Biography) |
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| Joe Pass Guitar Chords (Mel Bay) |
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| Joe Pass Guitar Style (Joe Pass and Bill Thrasher) |
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| Joe Pass Herb Ellis Jazz Duets G Blues (Two Guitars) |
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| Joe Pass Jazz Guitar Solos |
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| Joe Pass The Red Book Guitar Jazz Method |
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| Joe Pass, The Best of – Guitar Signature Licks PDF + MP3 audio tracks Play Along with Tablature |
 | Best Of Joe Pass – Guitar Signature Licks |
| Joe Sample And The Crusaders Street Life | Joe Sample And The Crusaders Street Life | |
| Joe Sample Crossover Keyboardist Volume 1 |
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| Joe Sample Transcriptions |
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| Joe Sample Transcriptions Vol. 4 |
 | Joe Sample Keyboard Technique Vol. 4 |
| Joe Satriani – Crystal Planet (Guitar) (Joe Satriani) Guitar Tablature |
 | Joe Satriani – Crystal Planet (Guitar) (Joe Satriani) Guitar Tablature |
| Joe Satriani – Guitar Secrets (Guitar Educational) (Joe Satriani) Guitar Tablature |
 | Joe Satriani – Guitar Secrets (Guitar Educational) (Joe Satriani) Guitar Tablature |
| Joe Satriani – Super Colossal (Joe Satriani) Guitar Tablature |
 | Joe Satriani – Guitar Secrets (Guitar Educational) (Joe Satriani) Guitar Tablature |
| Joe Satriani Anthology Songbook Guitar TABs |
 | Joe Satriani Anthology Songbook Guitar TABs |
| Joe Satriani Collection with Tablature |
 | Joe Satriani Collection with Tablature |
| Joe Satriani Guitar Secrets with Tablature 41 private lessons as featured in Guitar |
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| Joe Satriani Signature Licks Guitar Book, The Best Of (with Audio Mp3 Tracks Play Along with Tablature) |
 | Signature Licks – The Best Of Joe Satriani |
| Joe Satriani Time Machine, Book 1 (Joe Satriani) Guitar Tablature |
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| Joe Satriani Time Machine, Book 2 (Joe Satriani) Guitar Tablature |
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| Joe Zawinul – Midnightmood |
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| Joep Beving – Ab Ovo |
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| Joep Beving – Ala |
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| Joep Beving – Midwayer (piano sheet music) |
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| Joep Beving – Sleeping Lotus |
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| Joep Beving – Sleeping Lotus – Solipsism (Piano Solo Sheet Music) (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| Joep Beving – Sonderling |
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| Joep Beving 3 Transcriptions For Piano Solo |
 | Joep Beving sheet music score download partitura partition spartiti |
| Joep Beving Adrift In Aether Piano Solo | Joep Beving Adrift In Aether Piano Solo | |
| Joep Beving Etude |
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| Joep Beving Hanging D Start Very Slowly … sheet music for piano solo | Joep Beving Hanging D Start Very Slowly … sheet music for piano solo | |
| Joep Beving Solitude |
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| Joep Beving The Light She Brings | Joep Beving The Light She Brings (sample) | |
| Joep Beving Zoetrope |
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| Joey Alexander Draw Me Nearer Piano |
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| Jóhann Jóhannsson – Domestic Pressures |
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| Jóhann Jóhannsson – A Game Of Croquet |
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| Jóhann Jóhannsson – A Model Of The Universe (from The Theory of Everything) |
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| Jóhann Jóhannsson – By The Roes, And By The Hinds Of The Field |
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| Jóhann Jóhannsson – Epilogue (The Theory Of Everything) |
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| Jóhann Jóhannsson – Flight From The City (For Solo Piano) |
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| Johann Johannsson – Forces Of Attraction (from The Theory of Everything) |
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| Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of (from The Theory of Everything) |
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| Johann Pachelbel – Canon In D | ||
| Johannes Bornlof Nocturnal Waltz |
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| Johannes Brecht Imperfect Moments Pt. 4 Piano |
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| Johannes Brecht Imperfect Moments Pt. 4 Piano.mxl | ||
| John 5 Book Of John |
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| John Abercrombie Jazz Guitar Solos Transcribed by Josh Workman and Christopher Jentsch |
 | John Abercrombie Jazz Guitar Solos |
| John Adams Short Ride In A Fast Machine For Piano Solo | John Adams Short Ride In A Fast Machine For Piano Solo-1st page | |
| John Adams China Gates For Piano | John Adams China Gates For Piano | |
| John Adams Eros Piano And Chamber Orchestra |
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| John Adams Phrygian Gates For Piano | John Adams Phrygian Gates For Piano | |
| John Armatrading The Weakness in Me from Walk under Ladders Piano Vocal guitar | John Armatrading The Weakness in Me from Walk under Ladders Piano Vocal guitar | |
| John Barnes Chance – Variations On A Korean Folk Song (Arr. For 2 Pianos) (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| John Barry Dances With Wolves |
 | John Barry – Dances with Wolves |
| John Barry The Persuaders Theme (sheet music) | John Barry-The Persuaders | |
| John Barry We have all the time in the world | John Barry We have all the time in the world | |
| John Barry – Born free |
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| John Barry – Out of Africa (Main Theme) Easy Piano Solo transcr. |
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| John Barry – Out Of Africa (Main Theme) Easy Piano Solo Transcr. (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| John Barry – Out Of Africa (piano selections) |
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| John Barry – Somewhere In Time | somewhere in time theme | |
| John Barry – Somewhere In Time (Musescore File).mscz | ||
| John Barry Somewhere In Time (Theme) |
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| John Bayless – O come all ye faithfull (sheet music transcription) | John Bayless – O come all ye faithfull (sheet music transcription) | |
| John Bayless – White Christmas (sheet music transcription) | John Bayless – White Christmas (sheet music transcription) | |
| John Brimhall The John Brimhall Piano Method Book 1 |
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| John Brimhall The John Brimhall Piano Method Book 2 |
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| John Brimhall The John Brimhall Piano Method Book 5 |
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| John Brimhall The John Brimhall’s Adult Piano Course Complete Level 1, 2 and 3 |
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| John Cage Kyle Gann- Silence Lectures and Writings 50th Anniversary Edition (Biography) |
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| John Cage – Dream |
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| John Cage – Five Any 5 voices or instruments |
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| John Cage – Piano works 1938-1948 (book sheet music) |
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| John Cage – Song Books Volume 2 |
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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.
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