The Home Road

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Song TitleThe Home Road (Search)
Composer(s):John Alden Carpenter
Author(s):John Alden Carpenter
Keyword(s) & Features: Banners; Bright; Burning; Coming Home; Composer is Poet; Cornfields; Countries; Dreaming; Dreams; Dying; Fire; Freedom; Hills; Homefires; Hours; Hymn; Journeys; Lakes; Lanes; Leading; Liberty; Long; Nationalism; Night; Patriotism; Peace; Plains; Quiet; Returning; Roads; Singing; Songs; Starry; Tipperary; Traveling; Wars; Woodlands; World War I
First LineSing a Hymn of Freedom (Search)
Average Duration2:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1917 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=115328
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/3b/IMSLP235929-SIBLEY1802.15491.3e3a-39087011997956road.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/59A4SXwQzrOTqglvZY3Hfi
Difficulty LevelHS (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: C4 - Eb5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
More Than One Voice?Arranged for SATB (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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