QUODLIBET. There is a passage in the third movement of Charles Ives's Second Symphony in which a quotation of the second movement of Johannes Brahms's First Symphony becomes something that sounds a little like God Bless America atttempting to become a fugato, followed by the "crown thy good" stanza of America the Beautiful. But the timing isn't right, with the Ives symphony a turn of the 19th-20th century composition, God Bless America premiering in 1918 with the more familiar Kate Smith version a 1938 re-release. America the Beautiful dates to 1893 and it's set to a Samuel A. Ward hymn tune of 1882. This analysis from the Yale Music Library suggests the similar-sounding Beulah Land as Ives's source. (Ives made frequent use of that tune.) I've also some work to do. The sourcing for the second movement makes no mention of When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, which makes an 1812 Overture-like appearance at the end. The musicologists apparently know that as HAMBURG.