An amateur poet he may have been but what other poets words have echoed out and. (Find more historical Times shade-throwing here. The Star Spangled Banner is not just a is PURE POETRY. A 1927 New York Times editorial, "Wanted, A National Anthem," voiced the common concerns. But many were not happy with merely codifying what had become complacency. Scott Keys The Star Spangled Banner (the national anthem of the United States.). The song had been the de facto anthem since President Wilson ordered it played at military events. To ANACREON in Heavn, where he sat in full Glee. On the surface, the lyrics of our National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, seem very clear that Georgetown lawyer and part-time poet and songwriter Francis Scott Key saw the American flag. Listen here (audio, and inspiration for this post, via the National Museum of American History). It's based off an 18th-century British pub song called "To Anacreon in Heaven." That's right: a song to be sung whilst drunk. Visitors walk past the main attraction of The Star-Spangled Banner Gallery, the almost 200-year old, 30-by 34-foot flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the US National Anthem on Augat the Smithsonian Institution American History Museum in Washington, DC. The composition, argued the Music Supervisors National Conference in 1930 (now the National Association for Music Education), "was too difficult a musical composition to be rendered properly by schoolchildren, informal gatherings and public meetings where the singing of the national anthem appropriate," according to a 1930 New York Times article.Īlthough Francis Scott Key penned the words in 1814 during the War of 1812, the melody is actually much older. Even before Congress declared "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official anthem of the United States in 1931, its complicated melody and soaring pitches were controversial.
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