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This file is one of the sheet music of the anthems of the world that was created by Jeromi Mikhael. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Full list of sheet music of anthems • Sheet music of anthems created by me • Current sheet music projects
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
Bing Crosby recorded the song on March 22, 1939, for Decca Records.He also recorded it as a reading of the poem with a musical accompaniment on August 15, 1946. [2]Igor Stravinsky's first of his four 1941 arrangements of "The Star-Spangled Banner" led to an incident on January 15, 1944, with the Boston police, but "Boston Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan said there would be no action."
The song, “American Anthem,” was written by songwriter Gene Scheer and was first sung by Denyce Graves in 1998 for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton at the Smithsonian Institution ...
Sheet music for "Dixie's Land" Archived July 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine from Historic American Sheet Music Archived May 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at Duke University. Lincoln and Liberty The short film A NATION SINGS (1963) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive .
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", [2] a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
Cover of the sheet music for "I Love You, California" featuring Mary Garden. Later in 1913, the song was introduced by opera star Mary Garden, associated with the Chicago Grand Opera at that time. "Mary Garden stopped Grand Opera to make this California song famous," read the notices virtually ensuring the popularity and success of the new song.
The score was recorded by the London Metropolitan Orchestra for the film and issued in an 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 minute version on the original motion picture soundtrack. [1] It was the second work on Kamen's 2001 album The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms (a symphonic poem), played in an 18-minute version by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Simon Mulligan (piano), Leila Josefowicz (violin), Michael Kamen ...