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"The Baltimore Patriot newspaper soon printed it, and within weeks, Key's poem, now called ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ appeared in print across the country, immortalizing his words — and ...

Boiled down to its essence, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a song about survival and resilience, about bravery and hope. The first stanza of Francis Scott Key's 1814 poem, as sung by generations of ...

First and most obvious, the Star Spangled Banner is a song composed with a fairly extensive vocal range. When performed in the key of ‘B flat’, the melodic range of the song is from a ‘B ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...

The Baltimore Patriot newspaper soon reprinted it, and within weeks, The Star-Spangled Banner, as it was quickly known, appeared in print across the country, immortalising both Key's words and ...

But it all begins with the performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The Super Bowl National Anthem is a great American tradition that has been carried out by some of the greatest voices in ...

And the mercurial composer isn’t above a little pandering to the locals. His “Star-Spangled Banner” is a throwback to Puritan times, he claims, an attempt at highlighting the tune’s ...

University of Michigan musicology and American culture professor Mark Clague talked about the history of The Star-Spangled Banner and how he describes it as a living document. The Star-Spangled ...

The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States. But where do the lyrics come from, and what’s the history of the anthem? ‘Oh, say can you see...’, goes ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.