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You king & country want you: A woman's recuiting song

Alternative Title
  • Your king and country want you. (A woman's recuiting song)
Composer
Illustrator
Lyricist
Issued
  • 1914
Description
  • Price 60¢'--page 1, 'Also published as a march'--front cover
  • composer's signature under publisher's stamp on front cover
  • at bottoms of pages 4 and 5 is the note 'When used for Male Voice substitute the word 'bless' for kiss.'
  • page 6 displays musical advertisement for 'Little grey home in the West.' by Hermann Löhr with words by D. Eardley-Wilmot
  • inside back cover contains musical advertisement for 'Wonderful garden of dreams' by Dorothy Foster with words Harold Simpson
  • back cover contains text advertisement for 'Song of the Southern Isles: A Cycle of Four Songs' by Hermann Löhr with words by Edward Teschemacher
  • plate number 25959.
  • vocal range is C4-E5(optional G5)
Cover Description
  • Illustrated image of a woman in blue standing with outstretched arms
  • title in blue letters above illustration
First Line
  • We've watched you playing cricket
First Line Chorus
  • Oh! We don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go
Instrumentation
  • Song for voice and piano
Subject
Work Type
Physical Extent
  • 8 p; color; 35 cm.
Copyright Claimant
  • Chappell & Co Ltd.
Identifier
  • your_king_and_country_want_you_7545
Shelf Location
  • 007545
Copy Location
  • University of Oregon Knight Library, Music Services Section
Publisher
Publication Place
Exhibit
  • World War I Music
Institution
Submission Date
  • 07/17/2017
Modified
  • 10/20/2023
Collections

APA

Historic Sheet Music Collection, University of Oregon. (20 Apr 2024). You king & country want you: A woman's recuiting song Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71j0326

MLA

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Chicago

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Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71j0326 | title= You king & country want you: A woman's recuiting song |author= |accessdate= 2024-04-20 |publisher= Chappell and Co.}}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Rubens, Paul A. (Paul Alfred), 1875-1917 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82225849
2 Hassall, John, 1868-1948 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95001823
3 Rubens, Paul A. (Paul Alfred), 1875-1917 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82225849
World War, 1914-1918--Songs and music http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113367
Songs with piano http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125211
Popular music--England http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107586
sheet music http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026430
lithographs http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300041379
Chappell and Co. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002052546
London >> Greater London >> England >> United Kingdom https://sws.geonames.org/2643743/
University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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