Klarinet Archive - Posting 000679.txt from 2001/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Thanksgiving Music
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:09:41 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.com]
>
> 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.

Yes, but "America The Beautiful" is not the US National Anthem. America The
Beautiful is credited to Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote the original version
in 1893. She wrote the 2nd version in 1904. Her final version was written in
1913.

Mark C.

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