Klarinet Archive - Posting 000687.txt from 2001/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Thanksgiving Music
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:45:54 -0500

At 06:09 PM 11/25/2001 -0600, you wrote:

> > -----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.

What does "America the Beautiful" have to do with it? I am (and so was the
author I was paraphrasing) referring to the "Star-Spangled Banner."

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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