List of patter songs

This is a list of some of the best known patter songs.

Pre-Gilbert and Sullivan

* Auber: ''Le domino noir'' – "Je suis sauvée enfin"
* Cornelius: ''Der Barbier von Bagdad'' – "Bin Akademiker, Doktor und Chemiker"
* Donizetti: '' L'elisir d'amore'' – "Udite, Udite, o rustici", middle section (Dulcamara)
* Donizetti: ''Don Pasquale'' – "Cheti, cheti, immantinente", final section (duet for Don Pasquale and Doctor Malatesta)
* Glinka: '' Ruslan and Lyudmila'' – Farlaf's Rondo «Близок уж час торжества моего» (Farlaf)
* Mozart: ''Marriage of Figaro'' – "La vendetta, oh, la vendetta", final section (Bartolo)
* Mozart: '' Don Giovanni'' – "Fin ch'han dal vino" (Don Giovanni)
* Mozart: ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'' – "Solche hergelaufne Laffen", especially the final section of the aira (Osmin)
* Mozart: "Clarice cara mia sposa", aria for Tenor, K. 256
* Rossini: ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' – "Largo al factotum", final section (Figaro); "A un dottor de la mia sorte" (Bartolo)
* Rossini: ''La Cenerentola'' – "Sia qualunque delle figlie", final section (Don Magnifico)
* Rossini: "La Danza"
* Rossini: ''Il viaggio a Reims – "Medaglie incomparabili" (Don Profondo)
* Offenbach: ''La jolie parfumeuse'' – "Neighbors Chorus"

Gilbert and Sullivan

* Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand: ''Cox and Box'' – "My Master Is Punctual" (Mr. Cox)
* Gilbert and Sullivan (referred to below as "Sullivan"): ''The Gondoliers'' – "In enterprise of martial kind" (Duke of Plaza-Toro, with Duchess, Cassilda and Luiz)
* Sullivan: ''The Gondoliers'' – "Rising early in the morning" (Giuseppe)Shepherd, Marc
"Nelson Eddy: Patter Songs from Gilbert and Sullivan"
at ''A Gilbert and Sullivan Discography''
* Sullivan: ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' – "When I Was a Lad" (Sir Joseph)
* Sullivan: '' Iolanthe'' – "When you're lying awake" (the "Nightmare song"; Lord Chancellor)
* Sullivan: ''The Mikado'' – "As someday it may happen" (Ko-Ko)
* Sullivan: ''Patience – ''"If you want a receipt for that popular mystery" (Colonel Calverley)Ainger, p. 196
* Sullivan: ''Patience'' – "If you're anxious for to shine" (Bunthorne)
* Sullivan: ''Patience'' – "So go to him and say to him" (Bunthorne and Lady Jane)
* Sullivan: ''The Pirates of Penzance'' – "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General Stanley)
* Sullivan: ''Princess Ida'' – "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am" (King Gama)
* Sullivan: ''Ruddigore'' – "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin)
* Sullivan: ''Ruddigore'' – "Henceforth all the crimes that I find in the Times" (Robin)
* Sullivan: ''Ruddigore'' – "My eyes are fully open to my awful situation" (Robin, Despard, and Margaret).
* Sullivan: ''The Sorcerer'' – "My name is John Wellington Wells" (J. W. Wells)
* Sullivan: ''Trial by Jury'' – "When I, good friends, was called to the bar" (the Learned Judge)
* Sullivan: ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' – "I've Jibe and Joke. ... I've wisdom from the East and from the West" (Jack Point)
* Sullivan: ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' – "Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Jack Point)

After G&S: selected showtunes

* Ashman & Menken: "Now (It's Just the Gas)" from '' Little Shop of Horrors''
* Lionel Bart: "Reviewing the Situation" from '' Oliver!''
* Cy Coleman: "Museum Song" from ''Barnum''
* Comden & Green: "If" from ''Two on the Aisle''
* Frankel & Korie: "The Revolutionary Costume" from ''Grey Gardens''
* Rupert Holmes: "Both Sides of the Coin" from ''Drood''
* Eric Idle: "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" from ''Spamalot''
* Kander & Ebb: "The Money Song" from ''Cabaret''
* Kander & Ebb: "We Both Reached for the Gun" from ''Chicago''
* George Gershwin: "The Mophams" from '' Primrose''
* George Gershwin: "It Ain't Necessarily So" from ''Porgy and Bess''
* Bock & Harnick: "Tonight at Eight" from ''She Loves Me''
* Jerry Herman: "Penny in My Pocket" from '' Hello, Dolly!''
* Jonathan Larson: "Therapy" from '' Tick, Tick... Boom!''Henderson, Kathy
"Speed Test! Check Out Our Video Roundup of the Fastest Patter Songs, from ''Company, Godspell'' & More"
Broadway.com, August 5, 2013, accessed June 24, 2016
* Lerner & Loewe: "Why Can't the English?", "I'm an Ordinary Man" and "A Hymn to Him" from ''My Fair Lady''
* Roger Miller: "The Royal Nonesuch" from '' Big River''
* Laurence O'Keefe: "Show You a Thing or Two" from '' Bat Boy: The Musical''
* Cole Porter: "Let's Not Talk About Love" from '' Let's Face It!''
* Stephen Schwartz: "All for the Best" from ''Godspell''
* Sherman Brothers: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from ''Mary Poppins''
* Stephen Sondheim: "Another Hundred People" and " Getting Married Today" from '' Company''
* Stephen Sondheim: "Now" from ''A Little Night Music''
* Stephen Sondheim: "The Worst Pies In London" and "A Little Priest" from ''Sweeney Todd''
* Stephen Sondheim: "Putting It Together" from '' Sunday in the Park with George''
* Stephen Sondheim: "Mr. Goldstone, I Love You" from ''Gypsy''
* Stephen Sondheim: "Your Fault" from ''Into the Woods''
* Stephen Sondheim: "Franklin Shepard, Inc." from '' Merrily We Roll Along''
*Jeanine Tesori: "The Speed Test" from ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' adapts portions of "My eyes are fully open" from ''Ruddigore''
* Kurt Weill: " Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" from ''Lady in the Dark''
* Meredith Willson: "Rock Island (opening sequence)" and "Ya Got Trouble" from ''The Music Man''

After G&S: selected popular and classical music

* '' Scrubs'': "The Rant Song" from the 2007 episode "My Musical"
* ''Animaniacs'': "Yakko's World" (1993), among others
* Barenaked Ladies: " One Week" from '' Stunt'' (1998)
* Billy Joel: "We Didn't Start the Fire" from '' Storm Front'' (1989)
* Noël Coward: " Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (1931)
*Tom Lehrer: " The Elements" (1959) uses the tune of the "Major-General's Song"
* Lucky Starr: "I've Been Everywhere" (1959 by Geoff Mack)
* ''Phineas and Ferb'': "History of the Tri-State Area", "I Really Don't Hate Christmas"
* Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" from '' We're Only in It for the Money'' (1968)Laurence, Robin
"Geoffrey Farmer fêted in new Vancouver Art Gallery show"
Straight.com, May 27, 2015, accessed June 24, 2016

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External links

Peter Schickele on the history of the patter song
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20060507123637/http://www.cris.com/%7eOakapple/gasdisc/ms_green.htm Description of Martyn Green recording of patter songs, listing thembr>List of some classical patter songsPatter Song
at TV Tropes

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