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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:31:32 -0500
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Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]>
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Dave wrote:

>[117 Years later, it was adopted as the national anthem of the U.S.A.  The
>original Star-Spangled Banner still exists and hangs in the Smithsonian
>Institution's Museum of American History in Washington, DC.  -Dave]

To which I will merely add that F S Key was a graduate of Saint John's
College in Annapolis Maryland, and the tune "To Anacreon in Heavan" is
not a drinking song in the rowdy sense, but was adopted by a rather
intellectual set.  The Anacreon of the title was a Greek poet, the works
are now known to be lost, but at the time a group of late hellenic texts
were thought to be authentic, and were studied by writers such as Goethe.

One might better think of the tune as being emblematic of a classicist...

Stirling Newberry

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