This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1917.
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Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Sheet music cover for "Bring Back My Daddy To Me"
Promotional ad for "Good-bye Broadway—Hello, France!" published in the New York Clipper.[1]
Willie Weston[1]
The first "jass" tune to be recorded. Roger Graham Music Publisher, Chicago. Click image for more information.
- "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
- "Mad'moiselle From Armentieres" 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
- "Six Times Six Is Thirty-Six" w. Bert Hanlon m. William White
- "Slippery Hank" Frank H. Losey
- "Smile And Show Your Dimple" w.m. Irving Berlin (reworked 1933 as "Easter Parade")
- "Smiles" w. J. Will Callahan m. Lee S. Roberts
- "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
- "The Story Book Ball" w.m. Billie Montgomery & George Perry
- "Sweet Emalina My Gal" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
- "That's The Kind Of Baby For Me" w.m. Jack Egan & Alfred Harrison
- "There Are Fairies At The Bottom Of Our Garden" w.m. Liza Lehmann
- "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
- "Wonder Eyes" m. Percy E. Fletcher
- "Yah-De-Dah" m. Mel B. Kaufman
- "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
The first commercial jazz recording, 1917.
- 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
- 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
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Eugène Ysaÿe – Exil, for string orchestra of only violins and violas, Op. 25
- January 2 – Vera Zorina, German dancer and actress (died 2003)
- January 3 – Pierre Dervaux, French operatic conductor, composer and pedagogue (d. 1992)
- January 10 – Jerry Wexler, music journalist and record producer (d. 2008)
- January 12
- January 15 – Tiny Timbrell, guitarist (d. 1992)
- January 19 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
- February 11 – Arcesia, singer (d. 1983)
- February 15 – Denise Scharley, French contralto (d. 2011)
- February 18 – Dona Massin, choreographer (d. 2001)
- February 25 – Anthony Burgess, composer (d. 1993)
- February 27 – George Mitchell, founder of the Black and White Minstrels (d. 2002)
- March 2
- March 7 – Janet Collins, dancer and choreographer (d. 2003)
- March 12 – Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)
- March 17 – Brian Boydell, Irish composer (d. 2000)
- March 18 – Riccardo Brengola, violinist (d. 2004)
- March 19 – Dinu Lipatti, pianist (d. 1950)
- March 20 – Vera Lynn, singer (d. 2020)
- March 21 – Anton Coppola, opera conductor (d. 2020)
- March 23
- March 26 – Rufus Thomas, singer (d. 2001)
- March 30
- April 9 – Johannes Bobrowski, lyricist (d. 1965)
- April 12 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
- April 22 – Yvette Chauviré, ballerina (d. 2016)
- April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (d. 1996)
- April 30 – Bea Wain, US big band singer (d. 2017)
- May 1
- May 14
- May 16 – Vera Rózsa, singer and voice teacher (d. 2010)
- May 21 – Dennis Day, US singer (d. 1988)
- May 22 – Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d. 1999)
- May 28 – Papa John Creach, fiddler (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)
- June 4 – Robert Merrill, operatic baritone (d. 2004)
- June 7 – Dean Martin, singer and actor (d. 1995)
- June 19 – Dave Lambert, US singer and arranger (d. 1966)
- June 29
- June 24 – Ramblin' Tommy Scott, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
- June 30 – Lena Horne, singer (died 2010)
- July 2 – Murry Wilson, American songwriter, producer and manager (d. 1973)
- July 14 – Roshan, Bollywood composer (d. 1967)
- July 17 – Red Sovine, American country & folk singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
- July 24
- August 3 – Antonio Lauro, guitarist and composer (d. 1986)
- August 17 – Walter Brown, blues shouter (d. 1956)
- August 22 – John Lee Hooker, blues musician (d. 2001)
- August 23 – Tex Williams, American country singer (d. 1985)
- September 5 – Art Rupe, founder of Specialty Records (d. 2022)
- September 11 – Myrta Silva, singer and composer (d. 1987)
- September 13 – Robert Ward, composer (d. 2013)
- September 15 – Richard Arnell, English composer (d. 2009)
- September 30 – Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer (d. 1987)
- October 4 – Violeta Parra, Chilean folk musician (suicide 1967)
- October 7 – June Allyson, American singer and actress (d. 2006)
- October 10 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
- October 13 – George Osmond, father of the Osmond brothers (d. 2007)
- October 21
- October 24 – Mike Pedicin, jazz bandleader (d. 2016)
- October 31 – Anna Marly, French singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
- November 12
- January – Friederike Grün, operatic soprano (born 1836)
- January 13 – Albert Niemann, Wagnerian tenor (b. 1831)
- February 10 – Emile Pessard, French composer (b. 1843)
- February 25 – Paul Rubens, English songwriter (b. 1875)
- March 1 – Antonina Miliukova, widow of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b. 1848)
- March 4 – Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer (b. 1843)
- March 25 – Spyridon Samaras, composer (b. 1861)
- April 1 – Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (b. 1868)
- April 29 – Florence Farr, actress, singer and composer (b. 1860)
- May 20 – Romilda Pantaleoni, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
- May 25 – Edouard de Reszke, operatic bass (b. 1853)
- June 12 – Teresa Carreño, pianist, singer and conductor (b. 1853)
- July 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, composer (b. 1847)
- August 7 – Basil Hood, librettist and lyricist (b. 1864)
- August 12 – Pavel Gerdt, dancer (b. 1844)
- September 5 – Marie Hanfstängl, operatic soprano (b. 1848)
- September 8 – Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer (b. 1843)
- September 11 – Evie Greene, actress and singer (b. 1875)
- September 15 – Elias Oechsler, composer (b. 1850)
- October 3 – Eduardo di Capua, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
- December 7 – Ludwig Minkus, violinist and composer (b. 1826)
- December 9 – Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1873)