America! My Homeland
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Descriptive Information
Title | America! My Homeland |
Composer | Blaine, Richard |
Lyricist | Treleaven, Henry |
Publisher | New York : Boosey & Co. |
Year of Publication | 1917 |
Date of Copyright | 1917-12-18 |
Physical Description | 1 score, men's voices ([1], 2-9, [3] p.) |
Type | Musical notation |
Comment | Blaine and Treleaven’s song competed directly with an identical title issued by Harry C. Eldridge. Both publications were marketed primarily to amateurs and schools; they appear to have been equally successful, especially in school ceremonies, until the 1920s, after which Blaine’s song faded from view. This arrangement by Sumner Salter, and a second arrangement for women's voices, were probably performed more often than the solo song that was originally copyrighted. |
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Musical Note | A high-class ballad that sounds much like an anthem--too slow and dignified to be truly a march song (though this arrangement for men's voices emphasizes the latter genre) but laced with martial figures: walking bass, fanfares, and modified rat-a-tat-tats. Harmonies evidence pervasive chromaticism, with modal borrowings and modulations to the flat submediant in the first quatrain and to the dominant for the final one, at the start of which is a slightly modified quotation from “America.” The music repeats exactly for the second verse. |
Dedication | Dedication |
Subject - Topic | |
Subject - Geographic | United States |
Lyrics |
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Musical Genre | High-class ballad |
Repository | Newberry Library |
Rights | 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 |
Cover Description | List of titles: Boosey & Co’s Series. / Famous Songs / Specially Arranged For / Male Voices. |
Back Cover Description | List of titles: Boosey & Co’s Series. / Sacred Quartettes, Anthems, Etc. / for / Mixed Voices (S.A.T.B.) |
Interior Description | |
Performance Medium | Men's voices |
Original Location | Box 163 |
Local Identifier | nda163_048 |
Collection Title | James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music |
Collection | World War I Sheet Music from the James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music |
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