Runaway Love (Mayerl, Billy Joseph)

Composition Year	1939
Genre Categories	Musicals; Theatrical Works; For voices, 5 keyboards; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring keyboard soloists; For voices with keyboard; English language; For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr)

Sheet Music

Like a Cat with a Mouse (CA)
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Arranger	Composer
Publisher. Info.	London: Keith Prowse & Co., Ltd., 1939.
Copyright	Public Domain - Non-PD US, Non-PD EU [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	from 'Mayerl School Magazine', August 1939
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Work Title	Runaway Love
Alternative. Title
Composer	Mayerl, Billy Joseph
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IBM 26
Key	C major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1939
First Publication.	1939
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Early 20th century
Piece Style	Jazz
Instrumentation	voices and 5 keyboard players (see below, Comments)

According to these Naxos notes: "This time instead of the standard theatre orchestra, in the pit was Billy himself on a Novachord and a Challen Multitone Piano and four young ladies (Mary McEwan, Irene Ashton, Christina Nelson and Christine Grosvenor) on four more Multi-tones, a Heath Robinson arrangement which one contemporary critic described as “a contraption in which a kind of cinema organ presides over four other instruments of the piano-cum-mouth organ persuasion, the whole linked together by a series of harmonious plumbing”!"
According to this Wikipedia article, the "Novachord is often considered to be the world's first commercial polyphonic synthesizer."
None of the internet sources on this musical mention a chorus, but this is subject to correction.