Klarinet Archive - Posting 000686.txt from 2001/11

From: Bonnie Davis <bdskees@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Thanksgiving Music
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:23:57 -0500

Yes, but the questioner asked about "America the Beautiful;" your reply (as
well as your subsequent reply) was in regard to "The Star Spangled Banner."

Bill Hausmann wrote:

> 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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