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Blands edition (c. 1784–1790)"><img alt="First page of the A. Blands edition (c. 1784–1790)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Anacreontic_Song_page1.jpg/220px-The_Anacreontic_Song_page1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Anacreontic_Song_page1.jpg/330px-The_Anacreontic_Song_page1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Anacreontic_Song_page1.jpg/440px-The_Anacreontic_Song_page1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2494" data-file-height="3192" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First page of the A. Blands edition (c. 1784–1790)</div></td></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: #E6E8FA;"><a href="/wiki/Song" title="Song">Song</a> by The <a href="/wiki/Anacreontic_Society" title="Anacreontic Society">Anacreontic Society</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Written</th><td class="infobox-data">~1773</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Published</th><td class="infobox-data">1778<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1778</span>)</span> (words only)<br />c. 1780<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">c. 1780</span>)</span> (music)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">Composer(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/John_Stafford_Smith" title="John Stafford Smith">John Stafford Smith</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lyricist" title="Lyricist">Lyricist(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Tomlinson" title="Ralph Tomlinson">Ralph Tomlinson</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" style="width:220px;" data-durationhint="61" data-mwtitle="The_Anacreontic_Song_(1780),_by_John_Stafford_Smith.oga" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/44/The_Anacreontic_Song_%281780%29%2C_by_John_Stafford_Smith.oga/The_Anacreontic_Song_%281780%29%2C_by_John_Stafford_Smith.oga.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/The_Anacreontic_Song_%281780%29%2C_by_John_Stafford_Smith.oga" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>The Anacreontic Song</b>", also known by its <a href="/wiki/Incipit" title="Incipit">incipit</a> "<b>To Anacreon in Heaven</b>", was the official song of the <a href="/wiki/Anacreontic_Society" title="Anacreontic Society">Anacreontic Society</a>, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London. Composed by <a href="/wiki/John_Stafford_Smith" title="John Stafford Smith">John Stafford Smith</a>, the tune was later used by several writers as a setting for their patriotic lyrics. These included two songs by <a href="/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key" title="Francis Scott Key">Francis Scott Key</a>, most famously his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry". The combination of Key's poem and Smith's composition became known as "<a href="/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner" title="The Star-Spangled Banner">The Star-Spangled Banner</a>", which was adopted as the <a href="/wiki/National_anthem" title="National anthem">national anthem</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States of America</a> in 1931. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Anacreontic_Society">The Anacreontic Society</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The Anacreontic Society"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack stack-right"><div><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anacreon_Louvre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Anacreon_Louvre.jpg/200px-Anacreon_Louvre.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Anacreon_Louvre.jpg/300px-Anacreon_Louvre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Anacreon_Louvre.jpg/400px-Anacreon_Louvre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>A bust of Anacreon.</figcaption></figure></div></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Anacreontic_Society" title="Anacreontic Society">Anacreontic Society</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club" title="Gentlemen's club">gentlemen's club</a> of the kind that was popular in London in the late <a href="/wiki/18th_century" title="18th century">18th century</a>. In existence from approximately 1766 to 1792, the Society was dedicated to the ancient Greek poet <a href="/wiki/Anacreon" title="Anacreon">Anacreon</a>, who was renowned for his drinking songs and odes to love. Its members, who consisted mainly of wealthy men of high social rank, would meet on Wednesday evenings to combine musical appreciation with eating and drinking.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Society met twelve times a year.<sup id="cite_ref-gentlemans_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gentlemans-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each meeting began at half past seven (i.e., 19:30) with a lengthy concert, featuring "the best performers in London", who would be made honorary members of the Society.<sup id="cite_ref-gentlemans_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gentlemans-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Society came to an end after the <a href="/wiki/Georgiana_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire" title="Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire">Duchess of Devonshire</a> attended one of its meetings. Because "some of the comic songs [were not] exactly calculated for the entertainment of ladies, the singers were restrained; which displeasing many of the members, they resigned one after another; and a general meeting being called, the society was dissolved".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is not clear exactly when this incident occurred, but in October 1792 it was reported that: "The Anacreontic Society meets no more; it has long been struggling with symptoms of internal decay."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_original_role_of_the_Song">The original role of the Song</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The original role of the Song"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> An early reference to the Anacreontic Song is found in the long-unpublished journals of gentleman-composer <a href="/wiki/John_Marsh_(composer)" title="John Marsh (composer)">John Marsh</a> (1752–1828). Writing of 11 December 1773, he recalls: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p> Mr Bowen... invited me to accompany him on the Saturday following to a concert at the London Coffee House called the Anacreontic Meeting, which I of course readily accepted of & played with Mr Smith the leader after wh'ch we sat down a pretty many of us to supper after which <a href="/wiki/Catch_(music)" title="Catch (music)">catches</a> & <a href="/wiki/Glee_(music)" title="Glee (music)">glees</a> were performed, in which a Mr Webster, a young man with a very fine bass voice much distinguish'd himself. The Anacreontic Song was also sung by him, in the last verse of which we stood hand in hand all around the table, this concert being in fact the origin of the Society held afterwards for many years at the Crown and Anchor.<sup id="cite_ref-marsh_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marsh-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Another reference is found in the long-unpublished <i>Recollections</i> of Richard John Samuel Stevens (1757–1837). In this passage, Stevens is speaking of the year 1777: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Evenings entertainment began at seven O Clock, with a Concert, chiefly of instrumental Music; it was not very uncommon to have some Vocal Music interspersed with the Instrumental. Mr. Sabattier was the Manager of this department, and generally stood behind the Person who was at the Piano Forte. At ten O Clock the Instrumental Concert ended, when we retired to the Supper rooms. After Supper, having sung "<a href="/wiki/Non_nobis" title="Non nobis">Non nobis Domine</a>" we returned to the Concert Room, which in the mean time, had been differently arranged. The President, then took his seat in the center of the elevated table, at the upper end of the room, supported on each side, by the various Vocal performers. After the Anacreontic Song had been sung, in the Chorus of the last verse of which, all the Members, Visitors, and Performers, joined, "hand in hand," we were entertained by the performance of various celebrated Catches, Glees, Songs, Duettos, and other Vocal, with some Rhetorical compositions, till twelve O Clock.<sup id="cite_ref-stevens_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stevens-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> Parke, writing in the early nineteenth century, recalls: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>After the concert an elegant supper was served up; and when the cloth was removed, the constitutional song, beginning, 'To Anacreon in Heaven,' was sung by the chairman or his deputy.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The Anacreontic Song served as the "constitutional song" of the Society. After the initial concert and meal, the Song would be sung in order to open the after-supper, more light-hearted part of proceedings. The verses, which are difficult to sing because of their wide range, would be sung by a solo singer, with the entire Society joining in the refrain.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_23-24-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although it is often described as a "drinking song", Lichtenwanger states that "To Anacreon in Heaven" "was not a barroom ballad, a drinking ditty to be chorused with glasses swung in rhythm", but "convivial, ... in a special and stately way".<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_23-24-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Composition_and_authorship">Composition and authorship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Composition and authorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Words">Words</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Words"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early publications of the song ascribe its lyrics to the Society's president, Ralph Tomlinson. Tomlinson was baptized in <a href="/wiki/Plemstall" title="Plemstall">Plemstall</a>, Cheshire, in 1744; by 1766 he was a lawyer working in London. Tomlinson likely became president of the Society following the death of the previous president, George Bellas, in January 1776.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_23-24-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died in March 1778 at the age of thirty-three.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_10_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_10-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stafford_Smith.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Stafford_Smith.png/220px-Stafford_Smith.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Stafford_Smith.png/330px-Stafford_Smith.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Stafford_Smith.png/440px-Stafford_Smith.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of John Stafford Smith, around 1820</figcaption></figure> <p>While many early publications of the Song attribute the words to Tomlinson, none name the creator of the music. The identity of the composer was a subject of controversy until the discovery, in the mid-twentieth century, of a passage in a then-unpublished manuscript of <i>Recollections</i> written by Richard John Samuel Stevens (1757–1837), a member of the Anacreontic Society. Writing of the year 1777, Stevens recalled: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>As I have mentioned the Anacreontic Society, it may not be improper to give some account of that Popular meeting. It was first held at the London Coffee House, on Ludgate Hill, but the room being found too small, it was removed to the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand, then kept by one Holloway. The President was Ralph Tomlinson Esqre, very much of a Gentleman, and a sensible, sedate, quiet man: I believe that he was a Solicitor in Chancery. He wrote the Poetry of the Anacreontic Song; which Stafford Smith set to Music: this Song was sung by Webster, when I first attended the Society.<sup id="cite_ref-stevens_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stevens-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Smith_O_Remember.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Smith_O_Remember.png/290px-Smith_O_Remember.png" decoding="async" width="290" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Smith_O_Remember.png/435px-Smith_O_Remember.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Smith_O_Remember.png/580px-Smith_O_Remember.png 2x" data-file-width="2012" data-file-height="710" /></a><figcaption>Beginning of the Canon "O Remember" by John Stafford Smith. It "gain'd a Prize Medal" from the London Catch Club in 1773.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In this passage, Stevens identified the composer as <a href="/wiki/John_Stafford_Smith" title="John Stafford Smith">John Stafford Smith</a> (1750–1836). Smith, the son of the organist of Gloucester Cathedral, was sent at a young age to sing in the <a href="/wiki/Chapel_Royal" title="Chapel Royal">Chapel Royal</a>, and thereafter soon established himself in the capital. Like Stevens himself, Smith was a young professional musician active primarily in the chapels and churches of London. Smith was a published composer by 1772, subsequently winning two composition prizes from the London Catch Club in 1773.<sup id="cite_ref-grove_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Smith and Stevens were likely among the "honorary members" of the Anacreontic Society who played in its concerts without having to pay the subscription fee;<sup id="cite_ref-licht_21_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-licht_21-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith is probably the "leader" identified by Marsh in his recollection of 1773 excerpted above. </p><p>Smith outlived both Ralph Tomlinson and the Anacreontic Society by several decades before dying in 1836. During his lifetime, the melody of the Song was set to other texts (most notably the "Defence of Fort McHenry" as discussed below) and became extremely popular. Despite this, Smith does not seem to have been eager to publicize the fact that he had composed the Song. The best evidence we have for a claim of authorship occurs in his <i>Fifth Book of Canzonets</i> (1799),<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which included an arrangement of the Anacreontic Song with the ambiguous notation "harmonized by the Author".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It remains puzzling why Smith did not make more effort to associate himself with the Song. Until the discovery of Stevens's <i>Recollections</i>, there was some controversy over whether Smith was in fact the composer.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, no alternative story for the music's origins (whether as the work of a different composer or as a pre-existing tune) ever gained a consensus among historians. Lichtenwanger suggests that "[p]erhaps Smith composed the song for Tomlinson for money, for a flat fee, which meant yielding his legal rights in it to Tomlinson or the Society".<sup id="cite_ref-licht_21_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-licht_21-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Date">Date</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Date"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The date of the composition of the Song is uncertain. It cannot predate the foundation of the Anacreontic Society (around 1766). Lichtenwanger suggests a composition date as late as 1776;<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but if the Marsh journal is accurate then the Song must have existed by December 1773.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The age of John Stafford Smith may also be of interest; Smith was in his mid-teens in 1766, while by 1773 he was in his early twenties and a published, prize-winning composer. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Chronology of The Anacreontic Song </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Date </th> <th>Event </th></tr> <tr> <td>17 August 1744 </td> <td>Ralph Tomlinson baptised in <a href="/wiki/Plemstall" title="Plemstall">Plemstall</a>, Cheshire.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_10_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_10-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>30 March 1750 </td> <td>John Stafford Smith baptised in Gloucester Cathedral.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_19_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_19-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1761 </td> <td>John Stafford Smith becomes a chorister at the Chapel Royal, London.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_19_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_19-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>19 June 1766 </td> <td>Ralph Tomlinson is admitted to the Society of Gentlemen Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity, London.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_10_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_10-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1766 </td> <td>Approximate date of the founding of the Anacreontic Society, by Jack Smith.<sup id="cite_ref-gentlemans_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gentlemans-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1773 </td> <td>John Stafford Smith is awarded two composition prizes by the <a href="/wiki/Glee_(music)#Glee_clubs" title="Glee (music)">Catch Club of London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-grove_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>11 December 1773 </td> <td>John Marsh records that he attended a meeting of the Anacreontic Society at the London Coffee House. The Anacreontic Song was sung by Webster. "Mr Smith" leads the musicians.<sup id="cite_ref-marsh_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marsh-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>15 January 1776 </td> <td>Death of George Bellas (president of the Society).<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_23-24-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Latest possible date for Ralph Tomlinson to become president. </td></tr> <tr> <td>1777 </td> <td>Latest possible date for the move from the London Coffee House to the Crown and Anchor tavern. This move took place under Ralph Tomlinson's presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-gentlemans_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gentlemans-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1777 </td> <td>Stevens writes that he "regularly attended" the Society around this time. Tomlinson was president.<sup id="cite_ref-stevens_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stevens-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>17 March 1778 </td> <td>Death of Ralph Tomlinson.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_10_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_10-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1 August 1778 </td> <td>Words of the Anacreontic Song (earlier version, with references to the meeting-place at the London Coffee House) published in <i>The Vocal</i> magazine. Attributed to "Ralph Tomlinson, Esq.".<sup id="cite_ref-gentlemans_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gentlemans-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>March 1780 </td> <td>Words of the Anacreontic Song (later version) published in <i>The London Magazine</i>. Attribute to "the late R. Tomlinson".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Star_Spangled_Banner_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Star_Spangled_Banner-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 1780 </td> <td>Anonymous "History of the Anacreontic Society" published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gentleman%27s_Magazine" title="The Gentleman's Magazine">The Gentleman's Magazine</a></i>. Includes the words of the song (later version), attributed to "poor Ralph Tomlinson, their late President".<sup id="cite_ref-gentlemans_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gentlemans-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Some time between 1777 and 1781<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_n22_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_n22-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>First Longman & Broderip edition of the Song with music and text (later version) published. Words attributed to "Ralph Tomlinson Esq. late President of that Society"; music unattributed. Refers to the Song as "Sung at the Crown And Anchor Tavern in the Strand". </td></tr> <tr> <td>1783 </td> <td>First known dated publication of the music of the Song, in <i>The Vocal Enchantress</i>. Both words and music are unattributed. </td></tr> <tr> <td>1792 </td> <td>Anacreontic Society "meets no more" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1799 </td> <td>John Stafford Smith publishes his <i>Fifth Book of Canzonets</i>, with a possible oblique claim to authorship of the Song </td></tr> <tr> <td>21 September 1836 </td> <td>Death of John Stafford Smith.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_19_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_19-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication">Publication</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vocal_Enchantress.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Vocal_Enchantress.png/220px-Vocal_Enchantress.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="366" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Vocal_Enchantress.png/330px-Vocal_Enchantress.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Vocal_Enchantress.png/440px-Vocal_Enchantress.png 2x" data-file-width="712" data-file-height="1186" /></a><figcaption>First page of the song as published in <i>The Vocal Enchantress</i> (1783)</figcaption></figure> <p>The lyrics of the song were published in <i>The Vocal Magazine</i>, 1778, attributed to "Ralph Tomlinson, Esq.".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The music, along with the words, was published in <i>The Vocal Enchantress</i>, a collection published in 1783.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are also various undated publications of the music which likely date to the early 1780s.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> None of these publications name the composer of the music. </p><p>Particular interest attaches to the first Longman & Broderip edition of the music, published between 1777 and 1781.<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_n22_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_n22-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was likely the first publication of the music and the official edition from which others were copied. Broderip, a partner at the firm, is known to have attended meetings of the Society.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lyrics">Lyrics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Lyrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The lyrics are "a good-natured takeoff on a bit of pseudoclassical mythology".<sup id="cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lichtenwanger_23-24-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following is taken from the first Longman and Broderip edition:<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anacreontic_Vocal.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Anacreontic_Vocal.png/220px-Anacreontic_Vocal.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Anacreontic_Vocal.png/330px-Anacreontic_Vocal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Anacreontic_Vocal.png/440px-Anacreontic_Vocal.png 2x" data-file-width="982" data-file-height="1306" /></a><figcaption>First known publication of the lyrics of "The Anacreontic Song", from <i>The Vocal</i> magazine, 1778. The reference to "Rowley's" was removed in later versions.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dt>1</dt> <dd>To <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r920966791">.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}</style><span class="smallcaps">Anacreon</span> in Heav'n, where he sat in full Glee,</dd> <dd>A few Sons of Harmony sent a Petition,</dd> <dd>That he their Inspirer and Patron would be;</dd> <dd>When this answer arriv'd from the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Jolly Old Grecian</span></dd> <dd>"Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,</dd> <dd>"no longer be mute,</dd> <dd>"I'll lend you my Name and inspire you to boot,</dd> <dd>"And, besides I'll instruct you, like me, to intwine</dd> <dd>"The <a href="/wiki/Myrtus" title="Myrtus">Myrtle</a> of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a></span> with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Bacchus" class="mw-redirect" title="Bacchus">Bacchus</a></span>'s Vine."</dd> <dt>2</dt> <dd>The news through <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Mount_Olympus" title="Mount Olympus">Olympus</a></span> immediately flew;</dd> <dd>When <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Old Thunder</a></span> pretended to give himself Airs.</dd> <dd>"If these Mortals are suffer'd their Scheme to persue,</dd> <dd>"The Devil a Goddess will stay above Stairs.</dd> <dd>"Hark! already they cry,</dd> <dd>"In transports of Joy,</dd> <dd>"Away to the Sons of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Anacreon</span> we'll fly,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dd>"And there, with good Fellows, we'll learn to intwine</dd> <dd>"The Myrtle of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Venus</span> with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Bacchus</span>'s Vine.</dd> <dt>3</dt> <dd>"The <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Yellow-Hair'd God</a></span> and his <a href="/wiki/Muse" class="mw-redirect" title="Muse">nine fusty Maids</a>,</dd> <dd>"From <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Mount_Helicon" title="Mount Helicon">Helicon</a></span>'s banks will incontinent flee,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dd>"<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Idalium" title="Idalium">Idalia</a></span> will boast but of tenantless Shades,</dd> <dd>"And the <a href="/wiki/Mount_Parnassus" title="Mount Parnassus">bi-forked Hill</a> a mere Desart will be</dd> <dd>"My Thunder no fear on't,</dd> <dd>"Shall soon do it's Errand,</dd> <dd>"And dam'me! I'll swinge the Ringleaders, I warrant.</dd> <dd>"I'll trim the young Dogs, for thus daring to twine</dd> <dd>"The Myrtle of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Venus</span> with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Bacchus</span>'s Vine."</dd> <dt>4</dt> <dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></span> rose up, and said, "Pry'thee ne'er quarrel,</dd> <dd>"Good King of the Gods, with my Vot'ries below:</dd> <dd>"Your Thunder is useless"—then shewing his Laurel,</dd> <dd>Cry'd "<i>Sic evitabile fulmen</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> you know!</dd> <dd>"Then over each head</dd> <dd>"My Laurels I'll spread;</dd> <dd>"So my Sons from your Crackers no Mischief shall dread,</dd> <dd>"Whilst snug in their Club-Room, they jovially twine</dd> <dd>"The Myrtle of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Venus</span> with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Bacchus</span>'s Vine."</dd> <dt>5</dt> <dd>Next <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Momus" title="Momus">Momus</a></span> got up with his risible Phiz,</dd> <dd>And swore with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Apollo</span> he'd chearfully join—</dd> <dd>"The full Tide of Harmony still shall be his,</dd> <dd>"But the Song, and the Catch, and the Laugh shall be mine.</dd> <dd>"Then, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jove</a></span>, be not jealous</dd> <dd>"Of these honest fellows."</dd> <dd>Cry'd <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Jove</span>, "We relent, since the Truth you now tell us;</dd> <dd>"And swear by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><a href="/wiki/Styx" title="Styx">Old Styx</a></span>, that they long shall intwine</dd> <dd>"The Myrtle of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Venus</span> with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Bacchus</span>'s Vine."</dd> <dt>6</dt> <dd>Ye Sons of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Anacreon</span>, then join Hand in Hand;</dd> <dd>Preserve Unanimity, Friendship, and Love!</dd> <dd>'Tis your's to support what's so happily plann'd;</dd> <dd>You've the sanction of Gods, and the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Fiat</span> of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Jove</span>.</dd> <dd>While thus we agree,</dd> <dd>Our Toast let it be.</dd> <dd>May our Club flourish happy, united, and free!</dd> <dd>And long may the Sons of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Anacreon</span> intwine</dd> <dd>The Myrtle of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Venus</span> with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">Bacchus</span>'s Vine.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_earlier_version_of_the_lyrics">The earlier version of the lyrics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: The earlier version of the lyrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the first known version of the lyrics, as published in <i>The Vocal</i> magazine of 1778, there are two significant textual discrepancies from later publications. </p> <ul><li>In the second verse, <i>A fig for Parnassus! To Rowley's we'll fly;</i> appears in place of <i>Away to the Sons of Anacreon we'll fly</i></li> <li>In the third verse, <i>To the hill of old Lud will incontinent flee,</i> appears in place of <i>From Helicon's banks will incontinent flee,</i></li></ul> <p>The two replaced lines refer to the Society's earlier meeting-place at the London Coffee-House, which was situated on Ludgate Hill and seems to have occupied the same premises as Rowley and Leech, a wine merchant.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Star_Spangled_Banner_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Star_Spangled_Banner-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music_2">Music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following melody is taken from the first Longman & Broderip edition: </p> <div class="mw-ext-score noresize" data-midi="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/2/l/2lw3q1af9riq41qxts13n328tzfqk88/2lw3q1af.midi"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/2/l/2lw3q1af9riq41qxts13n328tzfqk88/2lw3q1af.png" width="769" height="828" alt="
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 To \markup\smallCaps{A} --
 \markup\smallCaps{na} -- \markup\smallCaps{creon} in Heav'n, where he
 sat in full Glee, A
 few Sons of Har -- mo -- ny
 sent a Pe -- ti -- tion, That
 He their In -- spi -- rer and
 Pa -- tron would be, when this
 An -- swer ar -- rived from the
 \markup\smallCaps{Jol} -- \markup\smallCaps{ly} \markup\smallCaps{Old} \markup\smallCaps{Gre} -- \markup\smallCaps{cian} “Voice,
 Fid -- dle, and Flute,
 no lon -- ger be mute,
 I'll lend you my Name and in -- spire you to boot, And, be --
 sides, I'll in -- struct you like me, to in -- twine, The
 Myr -- tle of \markup\smallCaps{Ve} -- \markup\smallCaps{nus} with \markup\smallCaps{Bac} -- \markup\smallCaps{chus} -- 's Vine.
 And be --
 sides I'll in -- struct you like me to en -- twine, The
 Myr -- tle of \markup\smallCaps{Ve} -- \markup\smallCaps{nus} with \markup\smallCaps{Bac} -- \markup\smallCaps{chus} -- 's Vine.
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" /><div style="margin-top: 3px;"><audio controls=""><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/2/l/2lw3q1af9riq41qxts13n328tzfqk88/2lw3q1af.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" /><div>Audio playback is not supported in your browser. You can <a href="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/2/l/2lw3q1af9riq41qxts13n328tzfqk88/2lw3q1af.mp3">download the audio file</a>.</div></audio></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Subsequent_history">Subsequent history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Subsequent history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Star_Spangled_Banner_(Carr)_(1814)_(detail).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Star_Spangled_Banner_%28Carr%29_%281814%29_%28detail%29.png/220px-Star_Spangled_Banner_%28Carr%29_%281814%29_%28detail%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Star_Spangled_Banner_%28Carr%29_%281814%29_%28detail%29.png/330px-Star_Spangled_Banner_%28Carr%29_%281814%29_%28detail%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Star_Spangled_Banner_%28Carr%29_%281814%29_%28detail%29.png/440px-Star_Spangled_Banner_%28Carr%29_%281814%29_%28detail%29.png 2x" data-file-width="2634" data-file-height="1726" /></a><figcaption>Detail from the first sheet music publication of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Thomas Carr, 1814). Note the F-sharp in the melody.</figcaption></figure> <p>The song, through its bawdy lyrics, gained popularity in London and elsewhere beyond the Anacreontic Society. New lyrics were also fashioned for it, including several patriotic titles in the United States. The most popular of these at the time was <a href="/wiki/Robert_Treat_Paine_Jr." title="Robert Treat Paine Jr.">Robert Treat Paine Jr.</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Adams_and_Liberty" title="Adams and Liberty">Adams and Liberty</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1798). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""The_Star-Spangled_Banner""><span id=".22The_Star-Spangled_Banner.22"></span>"The Star-Spangled Banner"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: "The Star-Spangled Banner""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key" title="Francis Scott Key">Francis Scott Key</a> wrote "Defence of <a href="/wiki/Fort_McHenry" title="Fort McHenry">Fort McHenry</a>" during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, while detained on a British ship during the night of 13 September 1814, as the British forces bombarded the American fort. Key specifically wrote the lyrics with this familiar patriotic tune in mind, just as he had done with an earlier set of his lyrics, "When the Warrior Returns", in which he had made similar use of "star-spangled banner" imagery in praise of <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Decatur" title="Stephen Decatur">Stephen Decatur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later retitled "<a href="/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner" title="The Star-Spangled Banner">The Star-Spangled Banner</a>", Key's lyrics, set to Stafford Smith's music, became a well-known and recognized patriotic song throughout the United States, and was officially designated as the U.S. national anthem on 3 March 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The setting of new lyrics to an existing tune is called a <a href="/wiki/Contrafactum" title="Contrafactum">contrafactum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-gentlemans-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-gentlemans_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gentlemans_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gentlemans_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gentlemans_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gentlemans_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gentlemans_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px 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.cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/s2492id1330015/page/224/mode/2up">"History of the Anacreontic Society"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gentleman%27s_Magazine" title="The Gentleman's Magazine">The Gentleman's Magazine</a></i>. <b>50</b>. London: D. Henry: 224–225. 1780.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Gentleman%27s+Magazine&rft.atitle=History+of+the+Anacreontic+Society&rft.volume=50&rft.pages=224-225&rft.date=1780&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fs2492id1330015%2Fpage%2F224%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFParkeInglis1830" class="citation web cs1">Parke, William Thomas; Inglis, Alexander Wood (1830). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/musicalmemoirsv100park/page/84/mode/2up">"Musical memoirs; comprising an account of the general state of music in England, from the first commemoration of Handel, in 1784, etc"</a>. p. 84.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Musical+memoirs%3B+comprising+an+account+of+the+general+state+of+music+in+England%2C+from+the+first+commemoration+of+Handel%2C+in+1784%2C+etc&rft.pages=84&rft.date=1830&rft.aulast=Parke&rft.aufirst=William+Thomas&rft.au=Inglis%2C+Alexander+Wood&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmusicalmemoirsv100park%2Fpage%2F84%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/St._James%27s_Chronicle" class="mw-redirect" title="St. James's Chronicle">St. James's Chronicle</a></i> 18-20.10.92,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="What do these numbers mean? 18–20 October 1992? (September 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> reported at <a href="#CITEREFMcVeigh2012">McVeigh 2012</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-marsh-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-marsh_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-marsh_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRobins1988" class="citation book cs1">Robins, Brian, ed. (1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uoyFI0m7WQsC&pg=PT115"><i>The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer</i></a>. Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press. pp. 115–116. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945193947" title="Special:BookSources/0945193947"><bdi>0945193947</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+John+Marsh+Journals%3A+The+Life+and+Times+of+a+Gentleman+Composer&rft.place=Stuyvesant%2C+New+York&rft.pages=115-116&rft.pub=Pendragon+Press&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0945193947&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DuoyFI0m7WQsC%26pg%3DPT115&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-stevens-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-stevens_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stevens_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stevens_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArgent1992" class="citation book cs1">Argent, Mark, ed. (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DjZ1lwwjqeoC&pg=PA25"><i>Recollections of R. J. S. Stevens: An Organist in Georgian London</i></a>. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 24–26. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0809317907" title="Special:BookSources/0809317907"><bdi>0809317907</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Recollections+of+R.+J.+S.+Stevens%3A+An+Organist+in+Georgian+London&rft.place=Carbondale%2C+Illinois&rft.pages=24-26&rft.pub=Southern+Illinois+University+Press&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=0809317907&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DDjZ1lwwjqeoC%26pg%3DPA25&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Parke (1830), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/musicalmemoirsv100park/page/80/mode/2up">p. 81</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lichtenwanger_23-24-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_23-24_7-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=23">pp. 23–24</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lichtenwanger_10-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_10_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_10_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_10_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_10_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=10">p. 10</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWarren-Hornec._1773" class="citation book cs1">Warren-Horne, Edmund Thomas (c. 1773). <i>A Twelfth Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees</i>. 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London: Macmillan. pp. 488–489. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/407077">407077</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Smith%2C+John+Stafford&rft.btitle=Grove%27s+Dictionary+of+Music+and+Musicians%2C+volume+4&rft.place=London&rft.pages=488-489&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=1904&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F407077&rft.aulast=Grove&rft.aufirst=George&rft.au=J.+A.+Fuller-Maitland&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbabel.hathitrust.org%2Fcgi%2Fpt%3Fid%3Dhvd.hn4qhj%3Bview%3D1up%3Bseq%3D501&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged September 2021">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-licht_21-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-licht_21_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-licht_21_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=21">p. 21</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith1799" class="citation book cs1">Smith, John Stafford (1799). <i>A Fifth Book of Canzonets, Canons & Glees, Sprightly and Plaintive</i>. London: the author. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/181765310">181765310</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Fifth+Book+of+Canzonets%2C+Canons+%26+Glees%2C+Sprightly+and+Plaintive&rft.place=London&rft.pub=the+author&rft.date=1799&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F181765310&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=John+Stafford&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100010463/">"The Anacreontick Song"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 February</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Library+of+Congress&rft.atitle=The+Anacreontick+Song&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fitem%2Fihas.100010463%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">the ambiguity inheres in whether the word "Author" refers to the author of the <i>Anacreontic Song</i>, or merely to the author of the <i>Fifth Book of Canzonets</i>; see Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=13">pp. 13–15</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=12">pp. 12–16</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=15">p. 15</a>: "[Library of Congress music librarian Richard S. Hill (1901–1961)] did not accept the alleged claim of the Fifth Book, nor did he believe that any composer alive could have failed to identify himself at some point with a tune that became so popular in Britain and America, latterly in a way completely unforeseen. Not finding any evidence for ... anyone else in the picture, Hill concluded by elimination that Tomlinson must have put his words to a melody that already existed. Because of the tune's considerable dependence on the tonic triad—which, for example, supplies fourteen out of the first seventeen notes in the modern "Star-Spangled Banner" version—Hill wondered whether the tune had not come from military music, where trumpets and horns at that time were still limited by the lack of valves and pistons to the natural overtone series in which they do not achieve all the tones of the diatonic scale until they reach up almost to the height of "the rocket's red glare." With much help in Britain and America, Hill searched a large part of the pre-1775 tune repertory; but, as with Kidson and Sonneck, no prototype was found. Hill was tantalized by a bandsman's book in the <a href="/wiki/Sutro_Library" title="Sutro Library">Sutro Library</a> of San Francisco that contains the Anacreontic tune captioned "Royal Inniskilling." He could show that the book had once belonged to a musician in the band of the Sixth Enniskillen Dragoons (the Irish and the colloquial English spellings are different). An Irish correspondent swore that his mother always said that the "'Royal Inniskilling' was mother to 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'" But Hill could find no evidence of the tune's existence under this title before 1799. He was too sound a scholar to publish without conclusive evidence, and during that impasse he tragically died."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=24">p. 24</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger's article predates the publication of Marsh's journals. He does quote the journals from manuscripts available in Cambridge University Library, but does not seem to be aware of the journal entry of 11 December 1773</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lichtenwanger_19-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_19_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_19_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_19_19-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=19">p. 19</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Star_Spangled_Banner-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-The_Star_Spangled_Banner_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_Star_Spangled_Banner_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sonneck (1914), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924021778125/page/n41">p. 34</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lichtenwanger_n22-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_n22_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lichtenwanger_n22_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lichtenwanger (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200033401.0/?sp=31">p. 31</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100010459/"><i>The Vocal Magazine</i></a>. London: J. Bew. 1778-08-01. p. 147. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/221370776">221370776</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Vocal+Magazine&rft.place=London&rft.pages=147&rft.pub=J.+Bew&rft.date=1778-08-01&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F221370776&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fitem%2Fihas.100010459%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Vocal_Enchantress_(Various)"><i>The Vocal Enchantress</i></a>. London: J. Fielding. 1783. pp. 336–338. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/728290655">728290655</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Vocal+Enchantress&rft.place=London&rft.pages=336-338&rft.pub=J.+Fielding&rft.date=1783&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F728290655&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fimslp.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Vocal_Enchantress_%28Various%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100000012/">"The Anacreontic song"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 February</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Library+of+Congress&rft.atitle=The+Anacreontic+song&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fitem%2Fihas.100000012%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A facsimile of this edition is available <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100000012/default.html">at the Library of Congress</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMarsh1998" class="citation book cs1">Marsh, John (26 February 1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uoyFI0m7WQsC&q=anacreontic&pg=PT115"><i>The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752–1828)</i></a>. Pendragon Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780945193944" title="Special:BookSources/9780945193944"><bdi>9780945193944</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 February</span> 2018</span> – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+John+Marsh+Journals%3A+The+Life+and+Times+of+a+Gentleman+Composer+%281752%E2%80%931828%29&rft.pub=Pendragon+Press&rft.date=1998-02-26&rft.isbn=9780945193944&rft.aulast=Marsh&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DuoyFI0m7WQsC%26q%3Danacreontic%26pg%3DPT115&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orthography as in original, except that closing quotation marks have been added.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">First version: <i>A fig for Parnassus! To Rowley's we'll fly;</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">First version: <i>To the hill of old Lud will incontinent flee,</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.potw.org/archive/potw234.html">[1]</a>: "<i>Sic evitabile fulmen</i> roughly translates to "this repels thunderbolts" (It was a common Roman belief that laurel provided protection from lightning.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.potw.org/archive/potw233.html">"Adams and Liberty"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Adams+and+Liberty&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.potw.org%2Farchive%2Fpotw233.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.potw.org/archive/potw340.html">"When the Warrior Returns"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=When+the+Warrior+Returns&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.potw.org%2Farchive%2Fpotw340.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/gloucester-history/john-stafford-smith-composer-of-the-star-spangled-banner/">"John Stafford Smith: Composer of the Star Spangled Banner"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=John+Stafford+Smith%3A+Composer+of+the+Star+Spangled+Banner&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk%2Fgloucester-history%2Fjohn-stafford-smith-composer-of-the-star-spangled-banner%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/as-american-as-tarte-aux-_b_1625590">As American as tarte aux pommes! Celebrating the Fourth with some American Music</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210802163703/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/as-american-as-tarte-aux-_b_1625590">Archived</a> 2 August 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Anacreontic_Song&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLichtenwanger1977" class="citation book cs1">Lichtenwanger, William (1977). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200033401/default.html"><i>The Music of "The Star-Spangled Banner": From Ludgate Hill to Capitol Hill</i></a>. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8444-0253-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8444-0253-2"><bdi>0-8444-0253-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Music+of+%22The+Star-Spangled+Banner%22%3A+From+Ludgate+Hill+to+Capitol+Hill&rft.place=Washington%2C+D.C.&rft.pub=Library+of+Congress&rft.date=1977&rft.isbn=0-8444-0253-2&rft.aulast=Lichtenwanger&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flcweb2.loc.gov%2Fdiglib%2Fihas%2Floc.natlib.ihas.200033401%2Fdefault.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://memory.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/service/encyclopedia/200033401/200033401.pdf">PDF link</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLichtenwanger1978" class="citation journal cs1">Lichtenwanger, William (1978). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://symposium.music.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1793:the-music-of-the-star-spangled-banner%E2%80%94whence-and-whither?&Itemid=124">"The Music of "The Star-Spangled Banner": Whence and Whither?"</a>. <i>College Music Symposium</i>. <b>18</b> (2). College Music Society: 34–81.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=College+Music+Symposium&rft.atitle=The+Music+of+%22The+Star-Spangled+Banner%22%3A+Whence+and+Whither%3F&rft.volume=18&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=34-81&rft.date=1978&rft.aulast=Lichtenwanger&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsymposium.music.org%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_k2%26view%3Ditem%26id%3D1793%3Athe-music-of-the-star-spangled-banner%25E2%2580%2594whence-and-whither%3F%26Itemid%3D124&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Anacreontic+Song" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcVeigh2012" class="citation book cs1">McVeigh, Simon (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lFTk7_zzdEYC&q=%22chapter+6+trial+by+dining-club%3A+the+instrumental+music%22&pg=PT137">"Trial by Dining Club: The Instrumental Music of Haydn, Clementi and Mozart at London's Anacreontic Society"</a>. In Zon, Bennett (ed.). <i>Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley</i>. 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