Cox and Box

Comic opera in one act by F.C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan

Year of composition: 1867
Source of arrangement: Kalmus parts
Copyright status: public domain
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Materials available: full score, orchestra parts, Bb clarinet parts, overture materials, Handwritten orchestra parts for rental, overture arrangement for woodwind quintet, overture arrangement for small concert band

Full (conductor's) score

Description: Typeset full (conductor's) score, 169 pages, 3-hole punched.
Note: This score includes an additional (first) verse to No.2 (Bouncer's song); an additional (second) verse to No. 4 (Box's lullaby), and an additional (second) verse to No. 7 ("The Buttercup").
Purchase price: Online delivery:  $95
Paper delivery:  $125 plus shipping and handling
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Orchestra parts

Description: Typeset orchestra parts, GBC ("comb") -bound with cardstock covers, including reasonable numbers of extra copies of parts
Flutes (2, 2nd doubling Piccolo) 8 pp
Oboe 8 pp
Clarinets (2, parts call for both A and Bb instruments) 9 pp
Bassoon 9 pp
Horns (2) 9 pp
Cornets (2) 7 pp
Trombones (2) 7 pp
Percussion (click here for more information) 8 pp
Violin 1 13 pp
Violin 2 13 pp
Viola 13 pp
Cello 12 pp
Bass 12 pp
Purchase price: Online delivery:  $150
Paper delivery:  $200 plus shipping and handling
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Bb clarinet parts

Description: Typeset part for Clarinets 1 and 2, transposed to call for Bb instruments only.
9 pages, GBC ("comb") -bound with cardstock covers
Note:
These Bb clarinet parts are compatible with the manuscript Kalmus edition of the parts, as well as with the Note8 edition described above.
Purchase price: Online delivery:  $15
Paper delivery:  $25 plus shipping and handling
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Overture materials for orchestra

Want to program the Cox and Box overture with your orchestra, rather than produce the full opera? Here's everything you'll need.

Description:

Typeset full (conductor's) score, 21 pages, 3-hole punched

Typeset orchestra parts, for Sullivan's full Cox and Box orchestra, 1 or 2 pages each, provided as loose sheets for you to copy and bind for your orchestra as needed

The clarinet part calls for both players to play Bb instruments.

Purchase price: Online delivery:  $35
Paper delivery:  $50 plus shipping and handling
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Even without a full orchestra, you can program this lively, too-little-known overture, one of your website proprietor's favorites.  Take a look my arrangements for woodwind quintet and for concert band.

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These materials make "no pretense to intellectual eminence or scholarship sublime". They are based on the manuscript parts available for rental or purchase from Kalmus, and one of my goals was to make the materials reasonably compatible with those parts, since many G&S companies already own them. I have corrected errors and inconsistencies in these parts in an informed and sensitive manner, but not necessarily a scholarly one.

The materials have been performance-tested multiple times. I'm grateful to the conductors of those productions for sending me errata, suggestions, and even the results of their own scholarship. I have incorporated their modifications into the materials for the benefit of future conductors.