Editing The Pirates of Penzance (section)

===Parody===
The score parodies several composers, most conspicuously [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]. "Come, friends, who plough the sea" and "You triumph now" are burlesques of ''[[Il trovatore]]'',<ref name=hulme>Hulme, David Russell. [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O005334 "The Pirates of Penzance"]. ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, accessed 30 June 2010 {{subscription required}}</ref> and one of the best-known choral passages from the finale to Act&nbsp;I, "Hail Poetry", is, according to the Sullivan scholar, [[Arthur Jacobs]], a burlesque of the prayer scene, "La Vergine degli Angeli", in Verdi's ''[[La forza del destino]]''.<ref>Jacobs, p. 135</ref> However, another musicologist, Nicholas Temperley, writes, "The choral outburst 'Hail, Poetry' in ''The Pirates of Penzance'' would need very little alteration to turn it into a [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] string quartet."<ref>Temperley, Nicholas. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/732768 "Mozart's Influence on English Music"]. ''Music & Letters'', vol. 42, issue 4, October 1961, pp. 307–318, Oxford University Press, accessed 1 July 2010 {{subscription required}}</ref> Another well-known parody number from the work is the song for [[coloratura]], "Poor wand'ring one", which is generally thought to burlesque [[Charles Gounod|Gounod]]'s waltz-songs,<ref>Hughes, p. 151</ref> though the music critic of ''The Times'' called it "mock-[[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]]".<ref>"Guthrie's Irreverent Pirates", ''The Times'', 16 February 1962, p. 15</ref> <!-- I'VE SEEN IT COMPARED WITH "SEMPRE LIBERA". IS THERE ANY MENTION OF THAT? --> In a scene in Act&nbsp;II, Mabel addresses the police, who chant their response in the manner of an [[Anglican]] church service.<ref>Maddocks, Fiona. [https://archive.today/20120912003426/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23440103-these-pirates-have-real-swagger.do "These pirates have real swagger"]. ''[[Evening Standard]]'', 20 February 2008, accessed 2 July 2010</ref>

Sullivan even managed to parody two composers at once. The critic [[Rodney Milnes]] describes the Major-General's Act&nbsp;II song, "Sighing softly to the river", "as plainly inspired by – and indeed worthy of – Sullivan's hero [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]",<ref name=rodders>"Putting the Jolly in Roger", ''The Times'', 26 April 2001</ref> and [[Amanda Holden (writer)|Amanda Holden]] speaks of the song's "Schubertian water-rippling accompaniment", but adds that it simultaneously spoofs Verdi's ''Il trovatore'', with the soloist unaware of a concealed male chorus singing behind him.<ref>Holden, p. 402</ref>