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Title | America |
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Composer | Tennant, Gilbert C. [Crowther] |
Lyricist | Tennant, Gilbert C. [Crowther] |
Publisher | Baltimore : The Key Music Pub. Co. |
Year of Publication | 1918 |
Date of Copyright | No copyright registered. |
Physical Description | 1 score, voice and piano ([1], 2-3, [1] p.) |
Comment | This song seems to have had virtually no impact; relatively few copies survive (though there were two printings), and it received no mention in trade journals or newspapers. |
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Musical Note | A march song, but distinguished by the incorporation of "semi-high-class" elements: the verse modulates extensively and makes extensive use of the parallel and relative minor keys, and the chorus, though more conventional, includes secondary dominants and chromatic inflections. A rat-a-tat-tat figure appears at the end of several lines, and the opening of "Dixie" is quoted in the bass after the first line of the chorus. |
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Musical Genre | March song |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
Cover Description | Text only, with small art deco ornament below the composer and list of songs. |
Back Cover Description | Text: That’s a mother’s reward from her son (© 1917 04 24). |
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Performance Medium | Voice and piano. |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_687 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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America (I'm Coming Back to You) - Cover | |
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America (I'm Coming Back to You) - Page 3 | |
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America (I'm Coming Back to You) - Page 2 | |
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America (I'm Coming Back to You) - Back Cover | |
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America (I'm Coming Back to You) - Lyrics |