Star Spangled Banner key
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Star Spangled Banner key
Can anyone tell me the "normal" key of the Star Spangled Banner? I know it's considered to be unsingable by most folks and would have thought it hard to play, but in G, anyway, the melody is really rather simple.
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A Greek Lyric poet. Why the Anacreontic Society chose him, in particular, I don't know, though his subject matter (and classic pedigree) probably helped.emmline wrote:Who's Anacreon?
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Anacreon in Heaven
The Key poem was put to the music of "Anacreon in Heaven" was a British drinking song that was about debauchery. Imagining that most of these men were singing it, it seems unlikely that it was sung in the same key that it is currently played in the US.
I believe that the change was to show off the instruments used at the time that the song became the US anthem.
I believe that the change was to show off the instruments used at the time that the song became the US anthem.
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Re: Star Spangled Banner key
Chuck_Clark wrote:Can anyone tell me the "normal" key of the Star Spangled Banner? I know it's considered to be unsingable by most folks and would have thought it hard to play, but in G, anyway, the melody is really rather simple.
<a href="http://viewfromthemeadow.com/">viewfromthemeadow.com</a> wrote:Garrison Keillor, the talented [sic] National Public Radio writer, entertainer, singer and song writer is promoting the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. He is spending this critical election year leading his audiences in the singing of The Star Spangled Banner. In the key of G --- what Keillor refers to as the "people's key." Now, there's a movement I can support.
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The most traditional arrangement of the Star-Spangled Banner is the standard military band arrangement, harmonized by Walter Damrosch and arranged by John Philip Sousa. It is in Ab.
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The John Philip Sousa Home Page
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Most band arrangements (I have seen a lot) are indeed Ab or Bb, but I believe that Ab is the generally adopted key and that Bb is simply there for the beginner-level bands.Walden wrote:I looked it up in about 4 or 5 hymnals, just now, and it's about evenly split between Bb and Ab.
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.