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The Star spangled banner : national song (music cover). Poem using the meter of the 'Anacreontic Song' when he wrote 'The Star Spangled By all accounts tone deaf, Key had already composed one other In any other song of the period, its striking meter may have been what attractedįrancis Scott Key. May have been due at least in part to its unique metrical structure.

Of the eighteenth century where, as often happened, new lyrics - including 'AdamsĪnd Liberty' and 'Jefferson and Liberty' - were written. The famous 'Toreador Song' in Bizet's opera Carmen.įirst published in England, the tune appeared in North America before the end Its musical complexity has been compared to that of 'Anacreon in Heav'n,' was a vehicle not only for the Society's accomplishedĪmateurs, but for its best baritone singer to display virtuosity through anĪstounding vocal range. In the mid-1760s, a London society of amateur musicians, the Anacreontic Society,Ĭommissioned a young church musician, John Stafford Smith, to compose musicįor material written by its president, Ralph Tomlinson. Society, frequently lifted not only their voices but also their cups in song. The members of the club for which the music was originally composed, the Anacreontic On the other hand, there is strong evidence that There is little basis for the legend that the tune of our national anthem wasĪn old English drinking song.

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