Oklahoma!: Selections

Richard Rodgers

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General Info

Year: 1943 / 1944
Duration: c. 8:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Chappell Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.

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Instrumentation

Condensed Score
D-flat Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet Solo-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Cornets Solo-II-III
E-flat Horn or Alto I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Drums, including:

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Orchestra Bells
Sandpaper Blocks
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Triangle
Wood Block

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie.

The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box-office smash and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Rodgers and Hammerstein won a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma! in 1944.

This musical, building on the innovations of the earlier Show Boat, epitomized the development of the "book musical", a musical play where the songs and dances are fully integrated into a well-made story with serious dramatic goals that are able to evoke genuine emotions other than laughter. In addition, Oklahoma! features musical themes, or motifs, that recur throughout the work to connect the music and story.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Pomona (Calif.) Concert Band (Linda W. Taylor, conductor) – 25 August 2016

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Buckley) (1959/2014)

All Wind Works

Bali Hai (arr. Yoder) (1949/1953)
Blue Moon (arr. Barker) (1937/1962)
Carousel: Highlights (arr. Yoder) (1945/1964)
Carousel: Selections (arr. Leidzen) (1945/1948)
Carousel Waltz (arr. Bennett) (1945/1957)
Cinderella Waltz (arr. Bennett) (1958)
Circus on Parade, The (arr. Warrington) (1935)
Flower Drum Song (arr. Lang) (1958/1959)
Golden Age of Broadway, The (arr. Moss) (2009)
Guadalcanal March (arr. Bennett) (1952/1978)
Guadalcanal March (arr. Curnow) (1952/1989)
Guadalcanal March (arr. Leidzen) (1952)
If I Loved You from "Carousel"(arr. Werle) (1945/)
It's a Grand Night for Singing (arr. Brown) (1945)
Highlights from "Oklahoma!" (arr. Moss) (1943/1994)
Highlights from "Oklahoma!" (arr. Yoder) (1943/1954)
Highlights from "South Pacific" (arr. Lang) (1949/1958)
Highlights from "The King and I" (arr. Herfurth) (1951/1957)
Highlights from "The Sound of Music" (arr. Cable) (1959)
King and I, The, Selections (tr. Bennett) (1951)
Lady is a Tramp (arr. Hastreiter)
Manhattan (arr. Morrissey) (1925/1953/1959)
March of the Siamese Children (arr. Bennett) (1951)
My Favorite Things (arr. Jennings) (1959/1992)
My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Buckley) (1959/2014)
Oklahoma! (arr. Bennett, adapt. Rodgers) (1943/1997)
Oklahoma!: Selections (arr. Leidzen) (1943)
Richard Rodgers in Concert (arr. Huff)
Richard Rodgers in Concert (arr Lowden)
Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" (arr. Edmondson) (1943/1982)
Salute to Richard Rodgers (arr. Ricketts)
Selections from "Carousel" (arr. Bennett) (1945)
Selections from "Carousel" (arr. Custer) (1945/1995)
Selections from "The Sound of Music" (arr. Christensen) (1959/1989)
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (arr. Lang) (1936/1954)
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (arr. Moss)
The Sound of Music -- Selections (arr. Bennett) (1959/1960)
The Sound of Music Medley (arr. Iwai)
South Pacific -- Highlights
South Pacific: Selection (tr. Leidzen) (1949)
South Pacific Symphonic Scenario (arr. Bennett; adapt. Rogers) (1949/1999)
Symphonic Highlights from "The King and I" (arr. Bulla) (1951/2016)
Themes from "Victory at Sea" (arr. Maltby) (1953/1975)
Tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein (arr. Custer)
Victory at Sea Symphonic Scenario (tr. Bennett) (1954/1955)
Victory at Sea (arr Moss)
You'll Never Walk Alone (arr. Rhea) (1945/2018)
You'll Never Walk Alone (arr. Walden and VanDoren) (1945/2017)

Resources

Oklahoma!, Wikipedia Accessed 17 August 2016
Rodgers, R.; Leidzen, E. (1944). Oklahoma: Selection [score]. Williamson Music: [United States]