Showing posts with label National anthems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National anthems. Show all posts

Sunday, October 3, 2010

The Star Spangled Banner VOCAL

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The words were written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, who had been inspired by the sight of the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry after a night of heavy British bombardment. The text was immediately set to a popular melody of the time, "To Anacreon in Heaven."

The tune is a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith (March 30, 1750 – September 21, 1836) for the Anacreontic Society, a London social club. "The Anacreontic Song". Smith wrote the tune in the mid-1760s, while still a teenager. It was first published by Longman & Broderip in London in 1778/1779.



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Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out of of their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave'
From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
This audio is part of the collection: Community Audio
Artist/Composer: The United States Air Force Band
Keywords: Star Spangled Banner; national anthem
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Deutschlandlied National Anthem of Germany

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The Song of Germany", also known as "Das Lied der Deutschen" or "The Song of the Germans") has been use as the national anthem of Germany since 1922. The music was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797. In 1841, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of "Das Lied der Deutschen" to Haydn's melody.



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Artist/Composer: USAREUR Band
Keywords: Deutschlandlied; National Anthem; Germany
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Thursday, July 16, 2009

God Save the King

Original 24 bit wav version from University of California converted to mp3 with Media Converter SA Edition noise removed and bass boosted with Audacity by sookietex. God Save the Queen VBR MP3 3.88 mb, God Save the Queen OGG format 2.23 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

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Title: God save the King. Performer: National Military Band and Peter Dawson. Issue Number/Label: 2438: Edison Blue Amberol Issue Number, Label: 12340: Edison Amberol. Year of Release: [1914]. Audio: Stream cylinder 0469.

Note: Reissue of Edison 4-minute Amberol 12340. Note: Edison Blue Amberol: 2438. Note: Year of release from "The Edison Phonograph Monthly," v.12 (1914). Note: Baritone solo, band accompaniment. Collection Name: Blanche Browning Rich collection.

Composer, Performer: Dawson, Peter, 1882-1961. Composer, Performer: National Military Band (London, England). Subject: National songs--Great Britain. Subject: Band music. Item Location: Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 0469 (Take 1)

The first definitive published version of the present tune appeared in 1744 in Thesaurus Musicus, as a setting of the familiar first verse, and the song was popularised in Scotland and England the following year,

Sound recordings were not eligible for federal copyright protection until 1972 and recordings made prior to this date are only protected by state and common-law copyright. All Edison cylinders are presumed to be in the public domain as the assets of Edison Records were transferred to the National Park Service, a federal agency.

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Artist/Composer: University of California, Santa Barbara
Keywords: England; Edison; God Save the King; National anthem
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Sunday, July 12, 2009

La Marseillaise (Instrumental)

Original 24 bit wav version from University of California converted to mp3 with Media Converter SA Edition noise removed and bass boosted with Audacity by sookietex. La Marseillaise VBR MP3 3.96 mb, La Marseillaise OGG format 2.41 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

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Title: La Marseillaise [Marseillaise]. Performer: New York Military Band. Issue Number Label: 2439: Edison Blue Amberol. Issue Number/Label: 1145: Edison Amberol. Year of Release: [1914]. Audio: Stream cylinder 0470.

Note: Reissue of Edison 4-minute Amberol 1145. Note: Edison Blue Amberol: 2439. Note: Year of release from "The Edison Phonograph Monthly," v.12 (1914). Collection Name: Blanche Browning Rich collection.

Rouget de Lisle singing the Marseillaise

Rouget de Lisle singing the Marseillaise
Composer/Performer: Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph, 1760-1836. Composer, Performer: New York Military Band. Subject: National songs--France. Subject: Band music. Item Location: Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 0470 (Copy 1) (Take 1). Item Location: Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 0471 (Copy 2) (Take 2)
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Lyrics: French and English

Allons enfants de la Patrie, Come, children of the Fatherland,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé ! The day of glory has arrived!
Contre nous de la tyrannie, Against us tyranny's
L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis) bloodied banner is raised, (repeat)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes Do you hear in the countryside
Mugir ces féroces soldats ? The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras They come right here into your midst
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes ! To slit the throats of your sons and wives!


Aux armes, citoyens, To arms, citizens,
Formez vos bataillons, Form your battalions,
Marchons, marchons ! Let's march, let's march!
Qu'un sang impur May a tainted blood
Abreuve nos sillons ! Drench our furrows!


Que veut cette horde d'esclaves, What does this horde of slaves,
De traîtres, de rois conjurés ? Of traitors and conspiring kings want?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves, For whom are these vile chains,
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés ? (bis) These long-prepared irons? (repeat)
Français, pour nous, ah ! quel outrage Frenchmen, for us, ah! What an insult
Quels transports il doit exciter ! What fury it must arouse!
C'est nous qu'on ose méditer It is we whom they dare plan
De rendre à l'antique esclavage ! To return to the old slavery!


Aux armes, citoyens... To arms, citizens...


Quoi ! des cohortes étrangères What! Foreign cohorts
Feraient la loi dans nos foyers ! Would rule our homes!
Quoi ! ces phalanges mercenaires What! These mercenary phalanxes
Terrasseraient nos fiers guerriers ! (bis) Would cut down our proud warriors! (repeat)
Grand Dieu ! par des mains enchaînées Great God ! By chained hands
Nos fronts sous le joug se ploieraient Our heads would bow under the yoke
De vils despotes deviendraient Vile despots would become
Les maîtres de nos destinées ! The masters of our destinies!


Aux armes, citoyens... To arms, citizens...


Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides Tremble, tyrants and traitors
L'opprobre de tous les partis, The shame of all good men,
Tremblez ! vos projets parricides Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix ! (bis) Will finally receive their just reward! (repeat)
Tout est soldat pour vous combattre, Against you, we are all soldiers,
S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros, If our young heroes fall,
La terre en produit de nouveaux, The earth will bear new ones,
Contre vous tout prêts à se battre ! Ready to join the fight against you!


Aux armes, citoyens... To arms, citizens...


Français, en guerriers magnanimes, Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Portez ou retenez vos coups ! Bear or hold back your blows!
Épargnez ces tristes victimes, Spare these sorry victims,
À regret s'armant contre nous. (bis) Armed against us against their will. (repeat)
Mais ces despotes sanguinaires, But not these blood-thirsty despots,
Mais ces complices de Bouillé, These accomplices of Bouillé.
Tous ces tigres qui, sans pitié, All these tigers who mercilessly
Déchirent le sein de leur mère ! Slash their mother's breast!


Aux armes, citoyens... To arms, citizens...


Amour sacré de la Patrie, Sacred patriotic love,
Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs Lead and support our avenging arms
Liberté, Liberté chérie, Liberty, cherished liberty,
Combats avec tes défenseurs ! (bis) Fight back with your defenders! (repeat)
Sous nos drapeaux que la victoire Under our flags, let victory
Accoure à tes mâles accents, Hurry to your manly tone,
Que tes ennemis expirants So that your dying enemies,
Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire ! See your triumph and our glory!


Aux armes, citoyens... To arms, citizens...


(Couplet des enfants) (Children's Verse)
Nous entrerons dans la carrière We shall enter the (military) career
Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus, When our elders are no longer there,
Nous y trouverons leur poussière There we shall find their dust
Et la trace de leurs vertus (bis) And the mark of their virtues (repeat)
Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre Much less jealous to survive them
Que de partager leur cercueil, Than to share their coffins,
Nous aurons le sublime orgueil We shall have the sublime pride
De les venger ou de les suivre Of avenging or following them


Aux armes, citoyens... To arms, citizens...

Artist/Composer: University of California, Santa Barbara
Keywords: France; Edison; La Marseillaise; National anthem
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

O Canada AUDIO

Original wav version from University of California converted to mp3 and hiss removed with Audacity by sookietex. O Canada VBR MP3 3.72 mb, O Canada OGG format 2.07 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Original wav version from University of California converted to mp3 by sookietex O Canada VBR MP3 1.86 mb, O Canada OGG format 2.54 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Title: O Canada. Performer: Irving Gillette [i.e. Henry Burr] and mixed chorus. Issue Number/Label: 2287: Edison Blue Amberol. Year of Release: [1914]. Audio: Stream cylinder 0083.





Note: Edison Blue Amberol: 2287. Note: Year of release from "The Edison Phonograph Monthly," v.12 (1914). Note: Tenor, orchestra accompaniment. Collection Name: Blanche Browning Rich collection.

O Canada

This file is in the public domain, because the lyrics and melody of the anthem are explicitly declared to be in the public domain by the National Anthem Act of Canada.
Composer/Performer: Lavallée, Calixa, 1842-1891. Composer, Performer: Burr, Henry. Subject: National songs--Canada. Item Location: Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 0083 (Take 1).

O Canada is the national anthem of Canada. The song was commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, the Honourable Théodore Robitaille, for the 1880 St. Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony. Calixa Lavallée wrote the music to a patriotic poem composed by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The text was originally only in French.

An English translation of the lyric appeared in 1906, and 1908 Robert Stanley Weir (November 15, 1856 – August 20, 1926) composed an English version.
Sound recordings were not eligible for federal copyright protection until 1972 and recordings made prior to this date are only protected by state and common-law copyright. All Edison cylinders are presumed to be in the public domain as the assets of Edison Records were transferred to the National Park Service, a federal agency.

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Artist/Composer: University of California, Santa Barbara
Keywords: Moses; Edison; O Canada; National anthem
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Friday, May 15, 2009

Rule Britannia

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Rule, Britannia!

  • James Thomson lyrics 1700-1748
  • Thomas Augustine Arne music 1710–1778
  • Albert Farrington Sung 1914
Edison Records. This is Edison Blue Amberol #2486. Source

Source: University of California Santa Barbara Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, using wav file no copyright is claimed.



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When Britain first at Heav'n's command
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang this strain;

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

The nations not so blest as thee,
Shall in their turns to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

Still mor majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful from each foreign stroke;
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to root thy native oak.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame,
All their attempts to bend thee down
Will but arouse thy generous flame;
But work their woe, and thy renown.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

To thee belongs the rural reign;
They cities shall with commerce shine;
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle! With matchless beauty crowned,
And manly hearts to juide the fair.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slave


Artist/Composer: Edison Records
Keywords: Rule Britannia
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Monday, February 2, 2009

The Star Spangled Banner Instrumental

The lyrics come from a poem written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779–January 11, 1843), the tune is a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith (March 30, 1750 – September 21, 1836) for the Anacreontic Society, a London social club. "The Anacreontic Song". Smith wrote the tune in the mid-1760s, while still a teenager. It was first published by Longman & Broderip in London in 1778/1779.

Star Spangled Banner 64Kbps MP3 620 kb, Star Spangled Banner VBR MP3 930 kb, Star Spangled Banner OGG format 887 kb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.



"The Star Spangled Banner", was ordered played at military and naval occasions by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, but was not designated the national anthem by an Act of Congress until 1931.

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The National Anthem consists of four verses. On almost every occasion only the first verse is sung.

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out of of their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave'
From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Keywords: Star Spangled Banner; Instrumental; national anthem; U.S. Army Bands