University of Michigan musicology and American culture professor Mark Clague talked about the history of The Star-Spangled Banner and how he describes it as a living document. The Star-Spangled ...

July 11, 2012— -- intro: Is our national anthem just too hard to sing? Singing "The Star Spangled Banner" has become an honored tradition at major sporting events across the country ...

It didn't become the country's national anthem until 1931. March 3, 2013— -- intro: While it's the song that is recited before major political and sporting events, "The Star Spangled Banner ...

The University of Michigan musicology professor and expert on "The Star-Spangled Banner" said the song has been a channel for protest since at least 1844, three decades after Francis Scott Key ...

First and most obvious, the Star Spangled Banner is a song composed with a fairly extensive vocal range. When performed in the key of ‘B flat’, the melodic range of the song is from a ‘B ...

The Star-Spangled Banner turns 200 on Sunday and, even today, it has aged gracefully. Sept. 14 marks 200 years since the poem was put to paper. Written by Francis Scott Key as he saw the American ...

Most elementary school classes note that the music for “The Star-Spangled Banner” came from a British drinking song. But in his well-received book, historian Marc Ferris, author of “Star ...

In 1931, Congress passed a bill to make “The Star-Spangled Banner” the official national anthem of the United States. But the decision was far from simple. Among the points of contention was ...

Nowadays, almost no one sings the third verse of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and for good reason. The first verse, in which a young man peers into a foggy and rain-soaked ...