Old Home Day
| Song Title | Old Home Day (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Charles Ives |
| Author(s): | Charles Ives |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Air; Arches; Bands; Baseball; Bells; Boys; Brave; Cats; Childhood; Churches; Cities; Composer is Poet; Corners; Crossing; Daisies; Daphnis; Dear; East; Fair; Farewell; Forty; Friendship; Games; Gladness; Grasping; Hands; Happiness; Hearts; Home; Homeland; Hometown; Irish; Leaves; Leaving; Leaving Home; Life; Marching; Melancholy; Memories; Minor Key; Old; Opera Houses; Passage of Time; Past; Picket Fences; Playing; Recounting; Red; Remembering; Reminiscing; Returning; Reunions; Rousing; Sadness; Schools; Shouting; Signs; Songs; Sounds; Squares; Stepping; Strains; Streets; Summer; Todd; Towns; Trees; Tunes; Under; Villages; White; Wistfulness; Yankees; Years; Youth |
| First Line | Go my songs! Draw Daphnis from the city. (Search) |
| Average Duration | 4:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1913 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=8746 |
| Larger Work | Five Street Songs (Search) |
| Musical Form | Verse-chorus + introduction (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Modernism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fw_0Hoo0Gw |
| Catalog Designation | Five Street Songs, no. 1 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Low voice |
| Range: | D4 - E5 (Search) |
| Original Key | Various (Search) |
| Orchestra and voice? | Yes (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Voice, piano, obbligato treble instrument (Search) |
| Contributor | AL (Search) |