There's a Little Blue Star in the Window
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https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/f53c9550-c556-0134-2373-0050569601ca-cDescriptive Information
Title | There's a Little Blue Star in the Window |
Composer | Klickmann, F. Henri |
Lyricist | Armstrong, Paul B. |
Publisher | Frank K. Root & Co. [McKinley Music Co., Owners] |
Place of Publication | Chicago (Ill.) |
Year of Publication | 1918 |
Date of Copyright | No copyright registered. |
Physical Description | 1 score ([1], 2-3, [1] p.) |
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Historical Note | This is the first of at least two printings, which had to be issued before the title was first advertised on January 16, 1918. The second printing followed the Victor and Columbia recordings, released on July 1, 1918. Arrangements for band and for orchestra appeared at least by 1919. The text was included in Feist’s “Songs the Soldiers and Sailors Sing” (© 1918 01 26). |
Musical Note | A semi-high-class ballad, gently syncopated in the refrain, this has the usual characteristics: melodic sequence, chromatic inflections, extensive secondary dominants, modal borrowings, and a melodic ossia at the end that reaches for a climax. |
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Musical Genre | Semi-high-class ballad |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
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Back Cover Description | Advertisement for “Late Popular Successes”. Four rows of samples. Top row: samples and covers for If You’ve Never Been in Dreamland You’ve Never Been in Love (© 1917, advertised 1917 06 14) Avalon (© 1917, advertised 1917 02 07) Second row: samples for The Hour of Memory (© 1917 07 12) Sweet Cookie Mine (© 1917 04 19) Paradise Blues (© 1916 10 14) Third row: samples for I Ain’t Got Nobody (© 1914 04 08) Let’s Go Back to Dreamy Lotus Land ((© 1917, advertised 1917 07 20) I Love That Loveable Melody (© 1917, piano roll announced 1917 02 24) Fourth row: samples and covers for Moonlight Blues (© 1916, advertised 1916 12 08) My Fox-trot Girl (© 1917, piano roll announced 1917 04 28) |
Performance Medium | voice and piano |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_703 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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