(Find more historical Times shade-throwing here. The lyrics of the song are based on a poem, Defence of Fort M’Henry. The lyrics come from 'Defence of Fort McHenry', a poem written on September 14, 1814. A 1927 New York Times editorial, "Wanted, A National Anthem," voiced the common concerns. The Star Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key, is known as the national anthem of the United States. 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is the national anthem of the United States. But many were not happy with merely codifying what had become complacency. The song had been the de facto anthem since President Wilson ordered it played at military events. Listen here (audio, and inspiration for this post, via the National Museum of American History). But the fate of national anthems is that their opening lines are often imprinted upon the minds of almost everyone, while the rest of the lyrics are as unfamiliar to readers and listeners as if they had been written in a different language. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to the United States national anthem, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’. It's based off an 18th-century British pub song called "To Anacreon in Heaven." That's right: a song to be sung whilst drunk. A Short Analysis of Francis Scott Key’s ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’. The composition, argued the Music Supervisors National Conference in 1930 (now the National Association for Music Education), "was too difficult a musical composition to be rendered properly by schoolchildren, informal gatherings and public meetings where the singing of the national anthem appropriate," according to a 1930 New York Times article.Īlthough Francis Scott Key penned the words in 1814 during the War of 1812, the melody is actually much older. Even before Congress declared "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official anthem of the United States in 1931, its complicated melody and soaring pitches were controversial.
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