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With Cat-like Tread: bass part

The bass part of With Cat-like Tread in A, from A2 to E3. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Is a policeman too: sings "Tarantara" on Sullivan's bass line, mostly E, A and D, with B, under the pirates' march.

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A2 to E3
Key
A
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About With Cat-like Tread

Words: W. S. Gilbert (1879)

Tune: Arthur Sullivan (1879)

With Cat-like Tread is the pirates' stealthy march from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance of 1879. The pirates sing about creeping in silence, but Sullivan marks their chorus Allegro marziale, like a march, and it gets louder as it goes: the joke is in the music. Our arrangement is read from Chappell's vocal score, the end of the Act II reprise, where two choruses sing at once, the pirates creeping along while the police answer "Tarantara!". Sullivan wrote it for men. Here, as mixed choirs sing it, the soprano and alto take the pirates and the tenor and bass the police, moved from D to A.

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