Kiss Me, Kate: Full Orchestra Score

Name: Kiss Me, Kate: Full Orchestra Score
Brand: Alfred Music
SKU: 00-44074
Price: 200.00 USD
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Full Score Critical Edition

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter / Critical Edition by David Charles Abell and Seann Alderking

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For the first time ever, the definitive full orchestral score of one of Broadway's beloved smash hits of the Golden Age is available for purchase. This edition includes the complete script and stage directions, alternate keys and dance routines in an appendix, explanatory notes, and documentation. Using the same rigorous musicological principles that have long been applied to the works of the great European composers, the original 1948 orchestrations of Cole Porter's masterpiece have been meticulously restored.

Broadway's classic musicals are perhaps America's most unique and enduring contribution to world culture, and Kiss Me, Kate is one of the jewels in the crown. Here it is at last, treated with the same respect as the great European operas and operettas. 754 pages.

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Publisher: Alfred Music

Page Count: 754

ISBN10: 1-4706-1954-7

ISBN13: 978-1-4706-1954-1

UPC: 038081494852

SKU: 00-44074

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About the Composer: Cole Porter

Cole Porter (1891-1964) stands among America's most sophisticated composers and lyricists, bringing operatic elegance and jazz-inflected wit to Broadway. His gift for melody, harmonic invention, and urbane storytelling shaped the Golden Age of musical theater; Kiss Me, Kate remains his masterwork, a full-length musical that rivals European operettas in dramatic scope and musical coherence.

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Why we love this

This is the orchestration exactly as Porter and his original orchestrators conceived it, now available in a fully restored, scholarly edition that honors the work's theatrical and musical architecture. For directors mounting a full production or for orchestras exploring Broadway's classical foundation, having the authoritative score with complete stage directions and documentation means every musical decision is grounded in the composer's intent.

What to expect

Elegant, witty, and dramatically urgent. Porter's orchestrations shimmer with period sophistication while the score propels the famous Shakespeare-within-a-musical plot with genuine theatrical momentum. Every ensemble moment and solo passage reflects a composer writing for singers who can act and dancers who can sustain a show.

Who it's for

Music directors and orchestrators producing a full theatrical staging of Kiss Me, Kate; orchestras programming excerpts or the complete score; music theater training programs teaching orchestration and Broadway dramaturgy at the highest level.

How to get the most out of it

Study the orchestration's balance between operatic weight and musical theater accessibility; Porter's voice writing assumes singers who can deliver both legit sound and character-driven comedy.
Reference the alternate keys and dance routine appendix early in rehearsal to confirm transpositions and choreographic transitions with your staging team.
Treat the pit ensemble as a character in the production; the orchestrations carry dramatic and comedic content independent of the stage action.

How to use it

Program the complete work as a full theatrical production, or extract individual numbers for concert performances alongside other mid-century Broadway repertoire. This score is equally suited to university music theater programs, regional theater productions, and orchestras exploring the American musical as serious art.