Product Description

13 selections from one of the most popular musicals ever. Includes: All Good Gifts * Bless the Lord * By My Side * Day by Day * Prepare Ye (The Way of the Lord) * and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211861 in Books
• Published on: 1983-10-01
• Released on: 2002-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Amazon.com Review
Unlike many other Broadway shows, Stephen Schwartz's musical take on the last days of Jesus is scored for a small combo rather than orchestra, which makes this piano reduction hardly a reduction at all. From the raunchy barrelhouse swagger of "Turn Back, O Man" to the soft-shoe of "All for the Best" and the gorgeous lyricism of "Day by Day" and "All Good Gifts," this book is full of fun-to-play selections. Also included is "Beautiful City," a number written for the film. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

The most incompetently engraved music I have ever seen
You may or may not care for "Godspell" -- for what it's worth, I'm rehearsing it right now. But before spending fifty dollars on this book, you should know that, despite the fact that it's been in print for 30 years, it is full of flat-out typos, misspelled accidentals, mislabeled parts, unexplained divisi, and other musical grekh. The publisher should be ashamed. If you plan to use this book for a performance, be prepared to spend many hours correcting it before rehearsal. (It is also often musically different -- even in the melodies -- from the Original Cast Album, but I don't know who was responsible for that.)

As an example of how slovenly the engraving is, consider the word "Stained!" in "We Beseech Thee". In the first place, it doesn't read "Stained!", it reads "Strained!". But, more than that, it's on two notes, so what the score is actually telling you to sing is "Strainèd!".

Great music - horribly printed score
I agree with an earlier reviewer. This is one of the most mistake ridden scores I have ever come across. The compositions I love, but the printer needs to reprint this score, making a ton of corrections. I love the music, but it takes a lot of detective work to figure out what is supposed to be happening in this score. It leaves out meter changes and accidentals. It has the wrong clef at the end of ALL FOR THE BEST. It list the wrong chord changes in Prepare Ye. It leaves out the repeat vamp in Save The People. In one bar of Alas For You there are too many beats in the measure. The list is endless. I am sure this sloppy printing must drive Stephen Schwartz, the composer wild!

Godspell: Rough Sheet Music
This book is for those who want only a rough copy of the lyrical and accompanimental sheet music for the Broadway Musical Godspell. Though not all of the notes and words were accurate to the newer or original cast, it is still thoroughly enjoyable.