{"data":{"description":"Download The Star-Spangled Banner. The original song: To Anacreon in Heaven, The Star-Spangled Banner.. see also: The Music of Early America for more categories.","title":"Star-Spangled Banner \u0026 America","post_type":"page","content":"\u003cstrong\u003eDownload The Star-Spangled Banner.\u003c/strong\u003e \"The original song: \"To Anacreon in Heaven\", \"The Star-Spangled Banner\".. see also: \u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/music1/\"\u003eThe Music of Early America\u003c/a\u003e for more categories.\r\n\u003ctable class=\"notes\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\r\n\u003ctbody\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd width=\"1%\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/images/earlyamerica/music-symbol.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"10\" /\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd width=\"99%\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"/media/earlyamerica/Anacreon.midi\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe original song: \"To Anacreon in Heaven.\"\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/images/earlyamerica/music-symbol.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"10\" /\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"/media/earlyamerica/StarSpangldBanner.mid\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe \"Star-Spangled Banner\"\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003c/tbody\u003e\r\n\u003c/table\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe Star-Spangled Banner has its genesis as an English-American hybrid.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe music as we know it today is English in origin. Ralph Tomlinson, president of the Anacreontic Society, a London social club, wrote a poem in 1770 called \"To Anacreon in Heaven.\" A year later John Stafford Smith, an organist and composer set the poem to music.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn 1931 the Congress of the United States enacted legislation that made the song this country's official national anthem. Forty-three years later Francis Scott Key, a poet-lawyer, witnessed the valiant defense of Fort McHenry by American forces during The Battle of Baltimore. One thousand dedicated Americans stopped the British advance on Baltimore, and on September 13, 1814 when he saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry \"by the dawn's early light,\" Francis Scott Key changed the words of the original tune from England, replacing them with his own. He named it The Star-Spangled Banner.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ch1 class=\"firsth1\" style=\"color: #ad8431;\"\u003eAMERICA\u003c/h1\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 style=\"color: #ad8431;\"\u003e\"My Country 'Tis of Thee\"\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003ctable class=\"notes\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\r\n\u003ctbody\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd width=\"1%\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/images/earlyamerica/music-symbol.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"10\" /\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd width=\"99%\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"/media/earlyamerica/America.midi\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmerica\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003c/tbody\u003e\r\n\u003c/table\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe music of the song \"America\" is derived from an old English Air, the original name of which has been lost in antiquity. The tune itself dates back to England, probably during the seventeenth century. It is based on \"God Save the King,\" synonymous with \"God Save the Queen.\" At the beginning of the 19th century it became the British National Anthem.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe words to America were written in Boston by Samuel Francis Smith on July 4, 1832.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n see also:\r\n\u003cul style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/music1/french-indian-war/\"\u003eThe French \u0026 Indian War\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/music1/18th-century/\"\u003eThe 18th Century\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/music1/revolutionary-war/\"\u003eThe Revolutionary War\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/music1/music-george-washingtons-life/\"\u003eGeorge Washington’s Life\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/music1/war-1812/\"\u003eThe War of 1812\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/music1/yankee-doodle-dandy/\"\u003eYankee Doodle\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003c/ul\u003e","menu":[{"path":"lives-early-america","title":"Famous Lives","submenu":[{"path":"lives-early-america/autobiography-benjamin-franklin","title":"Autobiography of Ben Franklin"},{"path":"lives-early-america/ramsays-life-washington","title":"Ramsay's The Life of Washington"},{"path":"lives-early-america/adventures-col-daniel-boone","title":"The Adventures of Col. 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