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⇒ 8 more: The Wooing of the Violin • Every Hour Away from You is Sixty Minutes Lost • If I Saw Much of You • When You Know Me Better • Play Me Something I can Dance To • Over the Garden Wall • Where Were You? • Cover Page (color)
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First edition
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| Publisher. Info.
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New York: T.B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, 1920. Plates 6054, 6055, 6060, 6061, 6069, 6077, 6078, 6088.
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Original images: ca.400dpi color tif files approx. 3910 by 4895 pixels. Editing: re-sampled to 600dpi, converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, and set uniform margins. Only Robert B. Smith is credited as lyricist for these selections.
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First edition
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| Publisher. Info.
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New York: T.B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, 1920. Plate 6109.
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| Copyright
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Original images: ca.400dpi color tif files approx. 3910 by 4895 pixels. Editing: re-sampled to 600dpi, converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, and set uniform margins.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions
Where Were You? - One-Step (Bennett)
For Small Orchestra
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Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981)
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| Publisher. Info.
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New York: T.B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, 1920.
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| Copyright
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Original images: ca.300dpi color tif (from pdf) files approx. 2055 by 3115 pixels. Editing: re-sampled to 600dpi, converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, and set uniform margins. Due to a torn page a couple of notes are lost at the end of the trombone part.
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General Information
| Work Title
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Oui Madame
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| Alternative. Title
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Some Colonel; Musical Comedy
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| Composer
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Herbert, Victor
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IVH 77
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| First Performance.
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1920-03-22 — Philadelphia, Philadelphia Theater
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| First Publication.
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1920 – New York: T.B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter
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| Copyright Information
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Possibly public domain in parts of the EU and other 70 pma territories.This item, which is in the public domain in its country of origin, is likewise in the public domain in countries which apply the rule of the shorter term. All EU countries apply the rule of the shorter term in general.
Note that in some cases this rule may be overridden by a treaty with the source country (especially the United States) and/or may not apply to works which fell into the public domain in their source country due to a failure to renew copyright or comply with other formalities.
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| Librettist
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Robert Bache Smith (1875-1951) and G. M. Wright (pseudonym of Mrs. Robert Bache Smith)
Irving Caesar (1895-1996) — My Day has Come (his only contribution?)
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| Language
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English
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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| Piece Style
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Early 20th century
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| Instrumentation
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vocal soloists, chorus (?), orchestra
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| Extra Information
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The work was withdrawn before a New York premiere could be arranged. The nine published vocal selections were also issued under the alternate title of Some Colonel.
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Navigation etc.
It does not appear that a complete vocal score was ever issued.
Herbert's holograph full score for the musical is located in the Victor Herbert Collection at the Library of Congress.
