A-M-E-R-I-C-A
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Title | A-M-E-R-I-C-A |
Alternative Title | p. 2, top: A-M-E-R-I-C-A / America |
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Year of Publication | 1917 |
Date of Copyright | 1917-02-21 |
Physical Description | 1 score, voice and piano ([1], 2-3, [1] p.) |
Type | Musical notation |
Comment | This song is one of many that imitated “M-O-T-H-E-R,” the 1915 hit by Theodore Morse and Howard Johnson. Although D. W. Cooper plugged the song briefly at a local theatre and registered mechanical rights in 1918, it appears to have had very little impact. |
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Musical Note | This spelling song is a march song in duple meter, with a slightly unusual 40-bar refrain that results from the extension of the third line and the interjected spelling of “America.” The verse is conventional, with ragtime rhythms used extensively in the first two phrases. Sequence is used prominently at the start of the verse and the in the penultimate phrase of the refrain. |
Dedication | Dedication |
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Subject - Geographic | United States |
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Musical Genre | March song |
Repository | Newberry Library |
Conditions of Use | The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to the following terms and conditions: https://www.newberry.org/rights-and-reproductions |
Illustrator | |
Artist | Swett, S. S. |
Cover Description | Photograph of “The appeal to the Great Spirit” by C. E. Dallin; photo by Baldwin Coolidge; the statue depicts a native American on horseback. Monochrome; brown on white; signed “Swett” BL, with monogram above (“S S S” displayed on the three leaves of a clover). |
Back Cover Description | Advertisement and samples for “When the Sun Sets in Galway” (© 1915 08 02) and “I’m Going Back to the Girl I Love” (© 1915 12 07). |
Interior Description | P3, BL: A-M-E-R-I-C-A 2 |
Performance Medium | Voice and piano |
Original Location | Box 163 |
Local Identifier | nda163_045 |
Collection | World War I Sheet Music from the James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music |
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