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.

"The Star-Spangled Banner" turns 200 years old Sunday. Did you know that the key to understanding its familiar notes and rhythms passes through Salem? When the sun rose Sept. 14, 1814, Francis ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...

in reference to the words and music of "The Star-Spangled Banner." The martial and glorious melody can be sung, by children as well as adults, if it is played in the key of B flat -- and it can be ...

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 ...

named after the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and part of the very fabric of Baltimore. Built near the spot where Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of a fort that inspired ...

Francis Scott Key may have immortalized this unspoken ... This is the greatness of “The Star Spangled Banner”. It sings Americanism more deeply and more succinctly than any other ode.

The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. National Museum of American History The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George ...

named after the author of the Star Spangled Banner, and part of the very fabric of Baltimore. Built near the spot where Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of a fort that inspired what ...