![]() ![]() ![]() (Find more historical Times shade-throwing here. A 1927 New York Times editorial, "Wanted, A National Anthem," voiced the common concerns. But many were not happy with merely codifying what had become complacency. The song had been the de facto anthem since President Wilson ordered it played at military events. Its based off an 18th-century British pub. While its members were no teetotalers, their song is a far cry from a boisterous pub ditty. The Star Spangled-Banner was not a poem set. Yesthe lyric of To Anacreon in Heaven, upon which Francis Scott Key’s lyric was written, clearly contains a toast in its final stanza and indeed the song was sung at each meeting of London’s 18th-century Anacreontic Society. ![]() Listen here (audio, and inspiration for this post, via the National Museum of American History). Although Francis Scott Key penned the words in 1814 during the War of 1812, the melody is actually much older. Francis Scott Key intended his verses to be song lyrics, not poetry. An amateur poet he may have been but what other poets words have echoed out and. It's based off an 18th-century British pub song called "To Anacreon in Heaven." That's right: a song to be sung whilst drunk. The Star Spangled Banner is not just a is PURE POETRY. The composition, argued the Music Supervisors National Conference in 1930 (now the National Association for Music Education), "was too difficult a musical composition to be rendered properly by schoolchildren, informal gatherings and public meetings where the singing of the national anthem appropriate," according to a 1930 New York Times article.Īlthough Francis Scott Key penned the words in 1814 during the War of 1812, the melody is actually much older. Even before Congress declared "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official anthem of the United States in 1931, its complicated melody and soaring pitches were controversial. ![]()
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