It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

The Star-Spangled Banner” is played at sports games, school events, and military ceremonies, but do you know the meaning of our national anthem? The song’s centuries-old history makes it worth ...

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’ ...

Ask students to view the following group of three videos to hear Mark Clague talk about the meaning of the four verses, terms found within The Star-Spangled Banner, and song writing in early ...

First and most obvious, the Star ... Spangled Banner is so difficult to sing is that, strictly speaking, it is NOT A SONG. It’s a POEM disguised as a SONG. When looking at the shape of the ...

Stravinsky’s "Star-Spangled Banner" challenges listeners ... but he capitalized on his audience’s knowledge of the lyrics by emphasizing their meaning through sound. Notably, Hendrix ...

He immediately began penning the first verse to the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Key set his lyrics to the then popular tune of the “Anacreontic Song,” the song of an 18th-century gentlemen’s ...

Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics. Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort ...

Stravinsky’s "Star-Spangled Banner" challenges listeners ... but he capitalized on his audience’s knowledge of the lyrics by emphasizing their meaning through sound. Notably, Hendrix ...