The Star-Spangled Banner (Smith, John Stafford)
Sheet Music
Scores
The Anacreontic Song
Complete Score
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Fynnjamin (2011/3/21)
The Vocal Enchantress
London: J. Fielding, 1783.
Melody and text only.
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Complete Score
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Fynnjamin (2011/3/21)
A 5th Book of Canzonets, Catches, Canons & Glees
London: for the Author (Stafford Smith), 1799.
Harmonized in 3 parts.
The full noveletta-style title of this collection is A 5th Book of Canzonets, Catches, Canons & Glees, sprightly and plaintive, with a part for the Piano-Forte subjoined where necessary to melodize the score
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Arrangements and Transcriptions
For Mixed Chorus and Orchestra (Hudson)
Full Score
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Clarinet or Trumpet 1 (B♭)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Clarinet or Trumpet 2 (B♭)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Bass Clarinet (B♭)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Alto Sax (E♭)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Baritone Sax (E♭)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Horn 1 (F)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Horn 2 (F)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Violins II
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Chorus score
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Robert Hudosn
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 [tag/del]
Hymn Style in A♭ major.
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For Mixed Chorus and Piano (Hofmann-Hudson)
Vocal score
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/14)
Józef Hofmann (1876–1957)
Robert A. Hudson
Robert Hudson
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Hofmann's arrangement with added chorus
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For Mixed Chorus and Piano (Damrosch)
SATB Chorus and Piano (in B♭)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/3/23)
Walter Damrosch (1862–1950)
Robert A. Hudson
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Open Score
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For Mixed Chorus
Complete Score (Service version)
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Dean Shannon (2012/3/24)
Dean Shannon
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1918 Service version.
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Chorus Score (C major)
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Robert A. Hudson (2010/1/18)
Robert Hudson
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Choral version in key of C major
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For String Quartet (Anonymous)
Complete parts, SATB Chorus score (A♭ major)
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Maestro.bwhite (2013/5/20)
Shar Music
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For String Quartet (Del Arte)
Complete Score
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Alonso del Arte (2010/8/28)
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Alonso del Arte (2010/8/28)
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Alonso del Arte (2010/8/28)
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Alonso del Arte (2010/8/28)
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Alonso del Arte (2010/8/28)
Alonso del Arte
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For Piano solo (Godowsky)
Complete score
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Hobbypianist (2007/6/21)
Leopold Godowsky (1870–1938)
New York: G. Schirmer, 1921. Plate 29987.
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For Piano solo (Hofmann)
Piano score
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Piano score (alternative scan)
*#02585 - 1.20MB, 8 pp. - (3) - V/V/C - 468x⇩
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Peter (2006/12/27)
Józef Hofmann (1876–1957)
New York: Carl Fischer, 1918. Plate 21188-2
This file is from the MIT archive project.
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For Piano solo (Rachmaninoff)
Piano score
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943)
Unidentified publisher, n.d.(ca.1950).
Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]
This file is from the MIT archive project.
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For Piano solo (Stults)
Piano score with words - one verse
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Robert Morrison Stults (1861-1933)
The Etude Magazine, March 1918.
Philadelphia: Theodore Presser.
Printed together with "America" (My Country 'Tis Of Thee) under the title, American National Anthems. (The United States government did not designate a national anthem until 1931.)
"Good playable arrangements of the two national anthems, transcribed for piano solo, especially for the Etude. Grade III."
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"Patriotic March" - Complete score
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Robert A. Hudson (2011/6/4)
Robert Morrison Stults (1861-1933)
Robert A. Hudson
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This is a more substantially altered version that also includes
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
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For Piano solo
Piano Score with Words (in B♭)
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The University Society, 467-2, 1918. Plate 1642
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General Information
| Work Title | The Star-Spangled Banner |
|---|---|
| Alternative Title | Original title: The Anacreontic Song |
| Composer | Smith, John Stafford |
|---|---|
| Movements/Sections | 1 |
| Year/Date of Composition | 1778 |
| First Publication | 1779-1780 as The Anacreontic Song — London: Longman & Broderip, 3 pages. 1814 as The Star-Spangled Banner |
| Librettist | Francis Scott Key (1779–1843) 1814 Ralph Tomlinson (The Anacreontic Song) |
| Language | English |
| Dedication | To the American People |
| Piece Style | Classical |
| Related Works | American National Anthems (Stults, Robert Morrison) |
| Extra Information | National anthem of the United States. (The U.S. Congress so designated it in 1931.) The original words for the music, entitled The Anacreontic Song, were written by Ralph Tomlinson, Esq. Francis Scott Key wote an earlier text for this melody in 1805, When the Warrior Returns, in commemoration of Stephen Decatur's victory in the naval battle in Tripoli. The melody was extremely popular in both England and the United States at the time. According to James Fuld's The Book of World-Famous Music (5th ed., 2000, Dover), there were more than 85 lyric poems set to this tune - mostly of a patriotic nature - published between 1790 and 1820 in the United States alone. |
Misc. Comments
Lyrics
(Only the first verse is usually sung. Very occasionally one also hears the fourth verse.)
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen, thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream;
'Tis the star-spangled banner: oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that has made and preserved us as a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust";
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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- Hudson, Robert A./Arranger
- A-flat major
- Hofmann, Józef/Arranger
- Damrosch, Walter/Arranger
- Hudson, Robert A./Editor
- Shannon, Dean/Editor
- Arte, Alonso del/Arranger
- Godowsky, Leopold/Arranger
- MIT project
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- Rachmaninoff, Sergei/Arranger
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- Stults, Robert Morrison/Arranger
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- Smith, John Stafford
- Classical
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- English language
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- For chorus with orchestra
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- For chorus with keyboard
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- For 4 players
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- Key, Francis Scott/Librettist
