Of course, the biggest difference between “Lean on Me” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” is obvious to all who have ears. It’s there in the tolling gospel piano chords and in the bluesy ...

The Star-Spangled Banner, so often a prelude to our ceremonies ... It has been testing our vocal chords and our eardrums ever since. Indeed, from its murky origins, the song has become so ...

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 ...

All musical phrases end in a cadence — a series of chords that close the piece ... the end of the song at “Oh say, does that star-spangled banner . . .” a military drumbeat also ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

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 ...

On Thanksgiving 2023, Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young released a roughly three-minute video of himself performing a Jimi Hendrix-ian version of the ...