The Original National Anthem The Original American National Anthem As the American Revolutionary War soldiers marched to war, and as the patriots sang in pubs, meeting halls, and churches, when they sang what was then the unofficial anthem of the American colonies, they were singing a piece of music composed by an American composer, friend of Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. Melody songs tamil download audio. The piece of music was named '. So, that being the case, then how did we end up with a piece of music composed in England for a British drinking club as our National Anthem, while we overlooked our own American composers? Good question. Here is how it happened.. In 1814, during a war with the British a lawyer and part-time poet by the name of Francis Scott Key saw an American flag still flying after a vicious bombardment.

Lagu dangdut midi karaoke online. This inspired him to write various versions of the famous poem that later became our National Anthem. It is possible that Key only intended this as a poem as there was nothing in his original notes to suggest a tune.

However, there was a very popular tune of the time, for which had been written many different sets of words. When the first handbills of the poem were printed, they bore the name of this tune to which the poem should be sung - To Anacreon In Heaven. Somewhat ironically, this is a song that was written for a British drinking club! The Anacreontic Society was a popular gentlemen's drinking club, based in a pub in the Strand, London.

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The words of the song had been written by the society's president, Ralph Tomlinson, but the tune is more of a mystery. At one time, the English composer Dr Thomas Arnold was thought to be its composer - Arnold had written numerous songs for the society. However, it is now accepted that the tune was probably written collectively by a group of members, led by John Stafford Smith, probably in 1771. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ordered that it should become the National Anthem played by the military and naval services, but it wasn't until March 3rd, 1931 that it was officially designated as the National Anthem by act of Congress: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the composition known as The Star-spangled Banner is designated as the National Anthem of the United States of America. So, we ended up with a Brit drinking tune as our National Anthem. Of course, many people think the darn tune is rather silly anyway and is difficult to sing as well as being somewhat more of a vocal singing exercise than a real song.

But that's another debate for another time. The point here is that we had a real national anthem, actually sung by patriots and soldiers during the American Revolution, composed by a patriot himself who was a friend of some of the famous founding fathers! And we didn't use the melody (or at least another Billings' melody) as our national anthem, and to make matters worse, we didn't even make the name and life of William Billings, our first real national composer a topic of music education in our schools! Most Americans do not even know who William Billings was, or about his musical accomplishments. Hopefully these web pages will help remedy that. Interesting news concerning William Billings and the children of America.