How Quaint the Ways of Paradox!: An Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan Bibliography - Hardcover

Indexing is very thorough.... a valuable reference for music libraries, researchers, and students. * American Reference Books Annual * ... very valuable... densely packed... * The Trumpet Bray * Dillard... has contributed immensely to the world of scholarship.... Nothing close to this has been done for over 60 years.... A valuable resource for anyone doing Gilbert and Sullivan research at any level. * CHOICE * ... needed and requested.... a very useful little volume, long overdue, that belongs in any basic music collection. * Rq *

Sir W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) are best remembered today for the fourteen Savoy comic operas on which they collaborated between 1871 and 1896. But Gilbert also dominated the British dramatic stage for more than 30 years, and Sullivan was recognized at an early age as the composer of serious works. This book identifies 968 articles, monographs, and dissertations by and about Gilbert and Sullivan. Works of history and analysis cover their lives, their separate and joint professional careers, and the Victorian world in which they lived and worked. Dillard also identifies and describes the products of their genius_poems, plays, librettos, and musical scores. He has examined over 90% of the entries to ensure the existence of the items cited and the accuracy of information about them.