This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1917.
Specific locations 1917 in British music 1917 in Norwegian music
Specific genres 1917 in country music 1917 in jazz
Events March 7 – "Livery Stable Blues", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band (a white 5-piece group from New Orleans led by cornetist Nick LaRocca) for the Victor Talking Machine Company in the United States, becomes the first jazz recording commercially released (described as a "foxtrot"). On August 17 the band records "Tiger Rag" May 12 – Béla Bartók's ballet The Wooden Prince is premiered in Budapest June 5 - Nicholas Laucella's symphonic impressions White House is premiered in Norfolk, Connecticut. First African American jazz recordings made by Wilbur Sweatman's Band Eddie Cantor makes his first recordings Songs of the First World War become popular in the U.S.
Bands formed See :Category:Musical groups established in 1917
Published popular music "All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me" w. Al Dubin m. Ernest R. Ball "Any Time Is Kissing Time" w. Oscar Asche m. Frederic Norton from the musical Chu Chin Chow "Are You From Heaven?" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland "At the Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields "A Bachelor Gay" w. Frank Clifford Harris & (Arthur) Valentine m. James W. Tate from the musical The Maid of the Mountains "Barnyard Blues" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Sbarbaro & Larry Shields "The Bells Of St Mary's" w. Douglas Furber m. A. Emmett Adams "The Bombo-Shay" by Henry Creamer
"Bring Back My Daddy to Me" m. George W. Meyer w. William Tracey & Howard Johnson "Bring Me A Rose" w.m. Charles Shisler "Cheer Up, Liza" John L. Golden, Raymond Hubbell "Cleopatra Had A Jazz Band" w. Jack Coogan m. Jimmy Morgan "Come To The Fair" w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" w.m. Shelton Brooks "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" Original Dixieland Jass Band "Eileen (Alanna Asthore)" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert "For Me And My Gal" w. Edgar Leslie & E. Ray Goetz m. George W. Meyer "For Your Country and My Country" w.m. Irving Berlin "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride" w. James Thomson m. Geoffrey O'Hara "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer "Going Up" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch "Good Luck and God Be With You, Laddie Boy" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards "Good Bye Broadway, Hello France" w. C. Francis Reisner & Benny Davis m. Billy Baskette
"Goodbye, Ma! Goodbye, Pa! Goodbye, Mule, with Yer Old Hee-Haw!" w. William Herschell m. Barclay Walker "'Good-bye,' That Means You" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Arthur Lange "Good-bye-ee" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" w. D. A. Esrom (pseudonym of Dolly Morse) m. Theodore F. Morse & Arthur Sullivan "Have A Heart" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern "Hawaiian Butterfly" w. George A. Little m. Billy Baskette & Joseph H. Santley "Homeward Bound" m. George Meyer w. Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz "Homing" w. Arthur L. Salmon m. Teresa del Riego "How Can I Forget When There's So Much To Remember" w.m. Irving Berlin "Huckleberry Finn" by Cliff Hess "I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way" w.m. George Fairman "I Don't Want to Get Well" w. Howard Johnson & Harry Pease m. Harry Jentes "I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer "I Wish You All the Luck in the World" w. & m. by Abe Olman "I'd Love To Be A Monkey In The Zoo" w. Bert Hanlon m. Willie White "I'll Take You Back To Italy" w.m. Irving Berlin "I'm All Bound Round With The Mason-Dixon Line" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Carroll (melody adapted from Chopin) "If I Find The Guy Who Wrote "Poor Butterfly"" w. William Jerome m. Arthur Green "Indiana" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley "Indianola" m. Henry R. Stern & Domenico Savino "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" w. Alfred Bryan & Willie Weston m. Jack Wells
"Johnson Rag" m. Guy H. Hall & Henry Kleinhauf "Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. M. K. Jerome "Leave It to Jane" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern "Let's All Be Americans Now" w.m. Irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie & George W. Meyer "Lily Of The Valley" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Anatole Friedland "Little Mother of Mine" w. Walter H. Brown m. Harry T. Burleigh "Little Sir Echo" w. Laura R. Smith m. J. S. Fearis
"Livery Stable Blues" Alcide Nunez & Ray Lopez "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher "Love Will Find A Way" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson. Introduced by José Collins in the musical The Maid of the Mountains "Mademoiselle from Armentières" w.m. anon "McNamara's Band" w. John J. Stamford m. Shamus O'Connor "The Modern Maiden's Prayer" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley "My Sunshine Jane" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball "My Sweetie" w.m. Irving Berlin "'N' Everything" w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. DeSylva & Gus Kahn "Napoleon" w. P.G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern "Nesting Time in Flatbush" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern "Oh It's a Lovely War" w.m. Maurice Scott "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" w. Ed Rose m. Abe Olman "Ole Miss Rag" w.m. W. C. Handy "On the Road to Home Sweet Home" w. Gus Kahn m. Egbert van Alstyne "Ostrich Walk" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields "Out Where the West Begins" w. Arthur Chapman m. Estelle Philleo "Over There" w.m. George M. Cohan "Paddy McGinty's Goat" w.m. R.P. Weston, Bert Lee & The Two Bobs "A Paradise For Two" w. Frank Clifford Harris & Valentine m. James W. Tate "Regretful Blues" w. Grant Clarke m. Cliff Hess "Reflection Rag" m. Scott Joplin "The Road to Paradise" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Sigmund Romberg from the musical Maytime "Rockaway" by Howard Johnson "Rolled Into One" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern "Rose Room" w. Harry Williams m. Art Hickman "Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay" w. Gus Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne "Say a Prayer for the Boys "Out There"" w. Bernie Grossman m. Alex Marr "Send Me Away With A Smile" w.m. Louis Weslyn & Al Piantadosi "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble" m. Spencer Williams "Sing Me Love's Lullaby" w. Dorothy Terris m. Theodore F. Morse "The Siren's Song" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern "Slippery Hank" Frank H. Losey "Smile And Show Your Dimple" w.m. Irving Berlin (reworked 1933 as "Easter Parade") "Some Sunday Morning" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting "Somewhere in France" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herbert Ivey "Somewhere in France Is Daddy" w. m. Great Howard (Howard Miller) "Somewhere In France (Is The Lily)" w. Philander Chase Johnson m. Joseph E. Howard "Southern Gals" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble "Sweet Emalina My Gal" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton "There's A Lump Of Sugar Down In Dixie" w. Alfred Bryan & Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble "There's Something Nice About The South" w.m. Irving Berlin "They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Fred Fisher "They'll Be Whistling It All Over Town" w. E. Ray Goetz m.Jean Schwartz "Thine Alone" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert "The Tickle Toe" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis Hirsch "Tiger Rag" w. Harry De Costa m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Sbarbaro, Henry Ragas & Larry Shields "Till The Clouds Roll By" w. P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern "Ugly Chile" w.m. Clarence Williams "The Waggle O' The Kilt" w.m. Harry Lauder "Wait Till The Cows Come Home" w. Anne Caldwell m. Ivan Caryll "When the Boys Come Home" w. John Hay m. Oley Speaks "When the Clouds of War Roll By" w. Nat Binns m. Earl Haubrich "When Yankee Doodle Learns To Parlez Vous Francais" w. Will Hart m. Edward G. Nelson "Where Do We Go from Here?" w. Howard Johnson m. Percy Wenrich "Where The Morning Glories Grow" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting "Why Am I Always The Bridesmaid?" w.m. Fred Leigh, Charles Collins & Lily Morris "Will You Remember?" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Sigmund Romberg "You Brought Ireland Right Over To Me" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball "You Never Knew About Me" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
Hit recordings
"Livery Stable Blues/Dixie Jass One Step" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" by the American Quartet "A Bachelor Gay" by Peter Dawson "I Don't Want To Get Well" by Van & Schenck "Joe Turner Blues" by Wilbur Sweatman "Long Boy" by Byron G. Harlan With The Peerless Quartet "Over There" recorded by Billy Murray Nora Bayes "Poor Butterfly" by the Victor Military Band "That's The Kind Of A Baby For Me" by Eddie Cantor "The Waggle O' The Kilt" by Harry Lauder "Yaddie Kaddie Kiddie Kaddie Koo" by Van & Schenck
Classical music Arnold Bax – November Woods Lili Boulanger – Psaume 130 (Du fond de l'abîme) Frank Bridge – Cello Sonata in D minor John Alden Carpenter The Birthday of the Infanta, ballet The Home Road for SATB mixed chorus or unison voices and piano Symphony No. 1 ("Sermons in Stones") Carlos Chávez – Sonata fantasia (Piano Sonata No. 1) Nancy Dalberg – Symphony in C-sharp minor Claude Debussy – Violin Sonata in G minor Frederick Delius – Eventyr (Once Upon a Time) Gabriel Fauré – Cello Sonata No. 1 Alexander Glazunov – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B, Op. 100 Launy Grøndahl – Violin Concerto in D Major Charles Koechlin La divine vesprée, ballet Paysages et marines, Op. 63bis, version for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 66 Carl Nielsen – Chaconne, for piano Willem Pijper Symphony No. 1, Pan Sonatina No. 1, for piano De Lente Komt, choral Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 19 Igrok (The Gambler), opera, Op. 24 Mimoletnosti (Visions fugitives), 20 pieces for piano, Op. 22 Piano Sonata No. 3 ("From Old Notebooks"), Op. 28 Piano Sonata No. 4 ("From Old Notebooks"), Op. 29 Symphony No. 1 Classical, Op. 25 Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau de Couperin, for piano Ottorino Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1 Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (string orchestra version) Jean Sibelius – Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra opp. 87 and 89 Charles Villiers Stanford Aviator's Hymn, for tenor, bass, choir, and organ Irish Rhapsody No. 5, in G Minor, for orchestra Night Thoughts, Op. 148, for piano "On Windy Way When Morning Breaks", partsong Sailing Song, partsong, two soprano voices "St George of England", song Scènes de ballet, Op. 150, for piano Sonata No. 1, in F major, Op. 149, for organ Sonata No. 2 ("Eroica"), in G minor, Op. 151, for organ Sonata No. 3 ("Britannica"), in D minor, Op. 152, for organ Igor Stravinsky Berceuse, for voice and piano Le chant du rossignol, symphonic poem Cinq pièces faciles, for piano 4 hands "Ovsen’", No. 2 from Podblyudnïye (Saucers) (Four Russian Peasant Songs), for women's choir Song of the Volga Boatmen, arrangement for winds and percussion Study, for pianola Valse pour les enfants, for piano (possibly 1916) Karol Szymanowski Sonata No. 3, for piano String Quartet No. 1 in C major Demeter, cantata Agave, cantata Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No. 4 Symphony No. 2 Ascenção (Ascension), revised or completed 1943/44 Eugène Ysaÿe – Exil, for string orchestra of only violins and violas, Op. 25
Opera Armas Launis – Kullervo Sergei Prokofiev – The Gambler Ignatz Waghalter – Jugend Giacomo Puccini – La rondine, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 27 March Richard Strauss – Die Frau ohne Schatten Gabriel von Wayditch – The Caliph's Magician Alexander Zemlinsky – Eine florentinische Tragödie
Film Pietro Mascagni – Rapsodia Satanica
Jazz
Musical theatre The Beauty Spot West End production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on 22 December and ran for 152 performances The Better 'Ole London production opened at the Oxford Theatre on August 4 and ran for 811 performances