Long shot - prologue for Joseph - backing track/sheet music

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Hecouldshine
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Long shot - prologue for Joseph - backing track/sheet music

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Help - anyone?? A long shot maybe :roll:

PLEASE Can anyone suggest where I could buy a downloadable version of the sheet music and a backing track for the Prologue that the Narrator sings in Joseph. I can't find the sheet music anywhere and all the (3) versions of the backing track I can find are the wrong version - I'm looking for the version used in the current stage production - essentially this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2xPEkx4rZ4

Need it this w/e for dd to learn for an audition next week ](*,)

Thanks if you can help. Otherwise I think she will be learning it from the youtube link and singing unaccompagnied 8-[
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Re: Long shot - prologue for Joseph - backing track/sheet mu

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Cant be a lot of help - but when my daughter was in a production last year we did a similar (unsuccessful) search.

Seems Lloyd Weber productions keep a tight rein on the score. The orchestra (they were kids) only got the score a month or two before (at extortionate cost) and then did a mammoth task learning it all in time! Think u-tube may have to be the way to go.
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Thanks DanceDanceDance. Think we have given up and are going for another song she already knows as her singing teacher didn't want her doing it unaccompanied with such a short preparation time. Shame as it is the perfect length. I think it might be in a vocal score book that is about £25! But then no backing track, even once snail mail has delivered it! Maybe I will have to keep my eye out on e-bay for the vocal score for another time :roll:

Thanks again DanceDanceDance
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Re: Long shot - prologue for Joseph - backing track/sheet mu

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I've got the vocal score the edition that was published in 1991. Don't know if it the right version.
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No sorry the prologue isn;t in my vocal score.
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I think it's in the edition published in or after 2007. Thanks for looking islandofsodor :D
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