Happy Birthday Star Spangled Banner
/Last week we sang and played along to the Star Spangled Banner. This year is the Star Spangled Banner's 200th birthday. It was written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key.
"
The Star-Spangled Banner
" is the
of the
. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort M'Henry",
a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet
after witnessing the bombardment of
by British ships of the
in the
during the
in the
.
The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by
for the
, a men's social club in London.
If you want some more information about the National Anthem here is a video giving some history.
This week in class we are singing parts to Ding-a-Ding and adding an ostinato to Hotaru Koi. If you want to work on part singing with Ding-a-Ding on your own play the CD, begin singing with it, keep singing that first part through the whole song. When this gets easy pick one of the other parts and sing it the whole time you listen to the song. There are a lot of repeated parts to try!
Here are our dance songs from last week and this week.
