Klarinet Archive - Posting 000677.txt from 2001/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Thanksgiving Music
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:03:15 -0500

At 11:42 AM 11/25/2001 -0600, Mark Charette wrote:
> > From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.com]
> >> At 09:05 AM 11/25/2001 -0500, Al Chiavarini wrote:
>
> > >America The
> > >Beautiful.
>
> > Lyrics are the poem by Francis Scott Key. Music is essentially the "To
> > Anachreon (sp?) in Heaven" drinking song mentioned earlier.
>
>Wrong song.

I have here, printed in a book, a facsimile of the first few lines of "The
Anacreontick Song" (also known as "To Anacreon in Heav'n") from John
Stafford Smith's Book of Canzonets, published in 1785. The melody is more
than coincidentally similar to the US National Anthem. The book is "The
History of Music in Performance" by Frederick Dorian. According to the
author, the popular song crossed the ocean fairly early with British
settlers and by 1797 had already gotten new words with patriotic
significance, thus causing it to be sung in a quite different manner from
what had been done before.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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