After the War Is Over Will There Be Any Home Sweet Home?
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Title | After the War Is Over Will There Be Any Home Sweet Home? |
Alternative Title | After the War Is Over Will There Be Any “Home Sweet Home” |
Composer | Andrieu, Harry |
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Publisher | |
Year of Publication | 1917 |
Date of Copyright | 1917-04-19 |
Physical Description | 1 score, voice and piano ([1], 2-3, [1] p.) |
Type | Musical notation |
Comment | Broad & Market Music Co., holders of the original copyright, printed two editions and then evidently sold the rights to Joe Morris Music Co. in early 1918. Morris issued a third edition in at least seven different printings (distinguished by the back covers) and promoted it successfully, especially with piano-roll manufacturers. It does not appear to have been performed widely in vaudeville but did attain some popularity with amateurs. Of at least six songs issued in 1917 with similar or identical titles, this was by far the most successful. In summer of 1918 the song was accused of damaging morale; and in August 1918, Morris copyrighted and issued a new version, a fourth edition, with lyrics rewritten by Andrew B. Sterling and with a shorter title: “After the war is over.” |
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Musical Note | The refrain of this waltz ballad closes by quoting the second phrase of “Home Sweet Home,” which also constitutes the piano introduction. As a whole, both words and music are closely modeled on “After the Ball”; meter and rhyme scheme are virtually identical, and the chorus quotes several lines with only slight alterations. The harmonic structure closely resembles the model, and the same secondary dominant is used to prepare the final phrase of the chorus. The melody, however, is primarily stepwise, with expressive chromaticism, unlike the arpeggiated melody of “After the Ball.” |
Dedication | Dedication |
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Musical Genre | Waltz ballad |
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 |
Artist | Pfeiffer Illustrating Co. |
Printer | F. J. Lawson Co. (New York, NY) |
Cover Description | Above, as if in a cloud, a mother, seated before a hearth in a Queen Anne chair, consoling two children (daughters); the whole is wrapped in smoke from the scene below: battlefield destruction, with a heap of ruined artillery and a dead soldier (a drummer-boy). BR, oval photographic inset of Joseph Woodruff. Red and blue on white paper, forming a red, white, and blue border; signed BL, in frame. |
Back Cover Description | At top, “Two songs that should be in every home”; samples and covers for We’re Going Over (© 1917 08 04) and We’re Going Over the Top (© 1918 01 03), with two lists of titles, the whole in an ornate frame with flowers and scrollwork. Unsigned. |
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Performance Medium | Voice and piano |
Original Location | Box 163 |
Local Identifier | nda163_076 |
Collection | World War I Sheet Music from the James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music |
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