Wicked Sheet Music

With details from composer Stephen Schwartz

Use this page to make an informed decision between three types...

Choose by level of difficulty for the Three Types of Songbooks and individual song sheets for the hit Broadway musical Wicked.

1. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Selections -- with Melody in piano part

Wicked Sheet Music Piano - Vocal Selections

This is a standard piano/vocal/guitar chords songbook. It includes the melody interpolated into the right hand. This means that a singer could hear the melody supported by the piano. The publisher generates this version based on material Stephen Schwartz submitted for the Vocal Selections book. ISBN number: 063407881x

Wicked - Piano/Vocal Selections From Musicnotes.com - in print or instant sheet music download. Download their software, pay a small fee, and you can have the sheet music now!

(Note - with digital sheet music, you can transpose the key if you want to. See the music notes icon on the score sheet when you get to that page.)

"I have to give the credit for adapting my piano accompaniment, so that it contains the melody without losing the feel of the original, to Mark Carlstein and his excellent staff at Hal Leonard Publishing."--Stephen Schwartz

Also available from Amazon: Wicked - Piano/vocal Selections at Amazon.com $12.56 (list price $17.95) [new browser window] for printed songbook.

Contemporary Singing Actor Duets Includes "For Good" and "As Long As You're Mine" from Wicked, "In His Eyes" from Jekyll & Hyde, "Written in the Stars" from Aida, and many others.

2. Wicked - Vocal Selections (Vocal Line with Piano Accompaniment Format)

"Wicked Vocal Selections with Piano Accompaniment" - Essential for Pros.

This is the professional version musicians would use for accompaniments. The piano part represents the real accompaniments the way Stephen Schwartz plays them. The vocal line is separate. In other words, the accompaniment does not double the melody. Mr. Schwartz and his team carefully developed this songbook.

Wicked Vocal Selections (Vocal Line with Piano Accompaniment). By Stephen Schwartz. Size 9x12 inches. 112 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (313268) See more info at Sheet Music Plus...

Or Wicked: Vocal Selections $12.57 (List price $17.95) - Amazon.com [new browser window]

In the introduction to Vocal Selections, Stephen Schwartz writes: "Several decisions always have to be made in translating the score from a show into a book of vocal selections. In the case of Wicked, I found it trickier than usual, because many of the songs are structured to carry the story in the show, but out-of-context would be clearer and more effective to perform in a somewhat altered format.

In the end, I chose to try to make the songs work for this medium, and thus to make changes in certain cases from the way they appear in the stage show and the cast album. ...

The piano accompaniment is essentially a reduction of what is played by the show orchestra, edited so that it is playable by one person with two hands and then fingers. It basically represents the way I play on the piano to accompany songs.... "

3. Easy Piano/vocal Wicked Sheet Music

• No One Mourns the Wicked - Sheet music with easy piano accompaniment
• The Wizard and I - Wicked Sheet Music easy piano
• What is This Feeling (Loathing) - easy piano
• Popular - easy piano
• Dancing Through Life - easy piano
• I'm Not That Girl - easy piano
• One Short Day - easy piano
• Defying Gravity - easy Piano
• I Couldn't be Happier - easy piano
• Wonderful - easy piano
• As Long As You're Mine - easy piano
• No Good Deed (Goes Unpunished)- easy piano
• For Good - easy piano

 

4. Choral, Orchestra, and Band

There's also Wicked choral music listed on the choral music page | For orchestra and band music see Wicked score

5. Accompaniment

1. Wicked - Piano Play-Along Includes both Sheet Music and CD: The Wizard and I | What Is This Feeling? | Dancing Through Life | Popular | I'm Not That Girl | Defying Gravity | I Couldn't Be Happier | For Good

ACCOMPANIMENT CDS: The CDs feature two tracks for each tune: a full performance for listening, and a separate backing track that lets players take the lead on keyboard. The high-quality, sound-alike accompaniments exactly match the printed music.

SHEET MUSIC (the piano/vocal/guitar version)

Your favorite sheet music will come to life with the innovative Piano Play-Along series! With these book/CD collections, piano and keyboard players will be able to practice and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Containing eight songs each, the books feature new engravings, with a separate vocal staff, plus guitar frames, so players and their friends can sing or strum along.To Buy it go to

Amazon.com: Wicked: Piano Play-Along Volume 46 (Hal Leonard Piano Play-Along) OR MusicNotes.com: Wicked - Piano Play-Along

6. Wicked Digital Sheet Music for Individual Songs

Digital downloads: These are available in EASY and PIANO/VOCAL. After downloading the free software called Scorch, you will be able to preview a song's sheet music, buy it, and print all pages, without waiting for it to ship by mail.

NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED

No One Mourns the Wicked easy piano | No One Mourns... Piano/Vocal |

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THE WIZARD AND I

The Wizard and I - easy piano | Wizard and I - piano/vocal |

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WHAT IS THIS FEELING (Loathing)

What is This Feeling (Loathing) - Easy piano | What is This Feeling - Piano/vocal

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POPULAR

Popular - Easy piano | Popular - Piano/vocal

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DANCING THROUGH LIFE

Dancing Through Life easy piano | Dancing Through Life - piano/vocal

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I'M NOT THAT GIRL

I'm Not That Girl easy piano | I'm Not That Girl - Piano/vocal |

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ONE SHORT DAY

One Short Day easy piano | One Short Day |

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DEFYING GRAVITY

"Defying Gravity" Defying Gravity Easy Piano (easy); Defying Gravity Piano/vocal/guitar (includes melody line in piano part).

CHOIRS: For Soprano, Alto, Tenor choir: Defying Gravity SAB choir; for SATB choir: Defying Gravity for SATB choir; for SSA choir: Defying Gravity for SSA choir

Defying Gravity Showtrax CD for accompanying Defying Gravity Wicked Choral Highlights showtrax ; Rehearsal trax

For orchestra and band music see Wicked score

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THANK GOODNESS/I COULDN"T BE HAPPIER

I Couldn't be Happier easy piano | I Couldn't Be Happier- piano vocal |

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WONDERFUL

Wonderful easy piano | Wonderful - Piano/vocal |

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AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE

As Long As You're Mine easy piano | As Long As You're Mine--Piano/vocal

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NO GOOD DEED

No Good Deed (Goes Unpunished) - easy piano | No Good Deed - piano vocal

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FOR GOOD

For Good - easy piano | For Good - Piano/vocal |

Choirs: For Good - SATB chorus | | For Good - SAB choir | For Good - SSA choir

TO ORDER WICKED SHEET MUSIC FROM EUROPE: see our new site: www.wickedwestend.co.uk shop section.

Collection include Wicked songs

Contemporary Singing Actor Duets Includes "For Good" and "As Long As You're Mine" from Wicked, "In His Eyes" from Jekyll & Hyde, "Written in the Stars" from Aida, and many others.

Broadway and Movie Hits Level 4 Piano solo collection includes "Dancing Through Life"

Musicnotes - read more

Wicked Music Books - Contents

The Wicked songs included in both books are

• "No One Mourns the Wicked" (a special version for the vocal selections book that includes new lyrics in order for it to make sense as one song)
• "The Wizard and I"
• "What is This Feeling?"
• "Dancing Through Life"
• "Popular"
• "I'm Not That Girl"
• "One Short Day"
• "Defying Gravity" (again with special lyrics so it makes sense as a solo)
• "I Couldn't be Happier" (excerpted from "Thank Goodness")
• "Wonderful"
• "As Long as You're Mine"
• "No Good Deed" and
• "For Good".

Reviews from Users

Review: "I recieved the song book and played through it. If I had to say one word: Awesome! It's very well made, written, and arranged. You need to be a very good piano player to play through the majority of the accompaniment but it's worth it to learn! Stephen did a great job at turning company numbers into solos. I was disappointed that the middle section of "What is this Feeling" was left out but I can understand why. All in all, 10 out of 10!!" John W. Watson
pianist, composer, musical director

Read another review on StephenSchwartz.com Jonah's review of the P/V book [new browser window]

If you love Wicked, you may enjoy The Schwartz Scene Newsletter free email quarterly - with background info on the musical.

Here's an answer to a question about keys used in the songbook (from Stephenschwartz.com): In all cases except one, the piano vocal selections are in the show keys. The only change I recall is "For Good", which I transposed down a step from Db to C. I did this because, since it is a song that's becoming so popular, I thought it would be easier for many people to play in C than Db and I thought the half-step would not make a huge difference. Most of the other songs are in relatively easy keys to play, and the ones which are not, such as "One Short Day", I left in the original key because of modulations within them that then would have wound up in difficult keys, or in the case of "Defying Gravity", because I think the accompaniment sounds considerably better on the piano in the original Db than in C or D (which would also get too high vocally

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Forum

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Hear someone clips on You Tube - Someone playing No One Mourns the Wicked from sheet music: No One Mourns the Wicked

Licensing

Wicked music licensing questions - Check with Stephen Schwartz's assistant - Visit www.StephenSchwartz.com contact info page or check on the discussion forum.

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Stephen Schwartz has written many beautiful scores in addition to Wicked : The Stephen Schwartz Songbook (more info) The musical Children of Eden (considered his best work) The musical Pippin (Stephen's first Broadway hit) The musical Godspell (Stephen's first hit) The musical The Baker's Wife (a musical gem) The film The Prince of Egypt (Academy Awards), etc.

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Wicked Karaoke CDs

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Visit the main Wicked page for useful links

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Visit the main Wicked page for useful links

Wicked Original Broadway Cast Album Tracks - Read about the CD

• 1. NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED - Glinda and Citizens of Oz
• 2. DEAR OLD SHIZ - Glinda and Students
• 3. THE WIZARD AND I - Morrible, Elphaba
• 4. WHAT IS THIS FEELING? - Glinda, Elphaba and Students
• 5. SOMETHING BAD - Dr. Dillamond and Elphaba
• 6. DANCING THROUGH LIFE - Fiyero, Glinda, Boq, Nessarose, Elphaba and Students
• 7. POPULAR - Glinda
• 8. I'M NOT THAT GIRL - Elphaba
• 9. ONE SHORT DAY - Glinda, Elphaba and Denizens of the Emerald City
• 10. A SENTIMENTAL MAN - The Wizard
• 11. DEFYING GRAVITY - Elphaba, Glinda, Guards and Citizens of Oz
• 12. THANK GOODNESS - Glinda, Morrible and Citizens of Oz
• 13. WONDERFUL - The Wizard, Elphaba
• 14. I'M NOT THAT GIRL (reprise) - Glinda
• 15. AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE - Elphaba and Fiyero
• 16. NO GOOD DEED - Elphaba
• 17. MARCH OF THE WITCH HUNTERS - Boq and Citizens of Oz
• 18. FOR GOOD - Glinda and Elphaba
• 19. FINALE - All