The Star-Spangled Banner

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B:The One Hundred and One Best Songs - The Cable Company - 1919 - Chicago, Illinois

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T:The Star-Spangled Banner
T:(Service Version*)
% Four-part piano arrangement for standard notation.
C:Francis Scott Key/John Stafford Smith
H:*The great growth of community singing, and the systematic introduction of mass singing as a factor
in the training of the American army, brought into prominence the fact that there has never been an
authorized official version of our national anthem.  Probably this accounts for the many variations in printed
and sung versions.  In an effort to bring about greater unity, a representative committee worked for almost
a year on this Service Version with the hope that it might be widely used.  The Committee of Twelve was
composed of the following members: John A. Carpenter, Frederick S. Converse, Wallace Goodrich, W.R.
Spalding, representing the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities; Hollis E. Dann,
Peter W. Dykems, Osbourne McConathy, representing the Music Supervisors' National Conference; C.C.
Birchard, Carl Engel, W.A. Fisher, Arthur Johnstone, E.W. Newton, representing Music Publishers. In
their conferences, the Committee were agreed, as a fundamental point of departure, that the Star-Spangled
Banner was to be regarded as a "folk song" and that therefore their efforts should be directed to
determining what is the present commonly accepted version of the American people rather than to endeavoring
to establish the authentic and original version from the historic standpoint.  This principle led to a
unanimous agreement regarding the version of the melody and the greater part of the harmony.  Details
concerning the deliverations of the Committee may be obtained from the Chairman, Peter W. Dykems,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
S:Source "The One Hundred and One Best Songs" - The Cable Company - 1919 - Chicago, Illinois
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%%staves [(1 2) (3 4)]
K:Bb

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