"The Anacreontic Song", also known by its incipit "To Anacreon in Heaven", was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's...
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The Anacreontic Society was a popular gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London founded in the mid-18th century. These barristers, doctors, and other...
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John Stafford Smith (category Masters of the Children of the Chapel Royal)
writing the music for "The Anacreontic Song", which became the tune for the American patriotic song "The Star-Spangled Banner" following the War of 1812...
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Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a social club in London. Smiths' song, "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics...
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Ralph Tomlinson (section The Anacreontic Song)
known for writing the original lyrics to "The Anacreontic Song". The music from the Anacreontic Song would be set as the music for The Star Spangled Banner...
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close relations to “The Anacreontic Song”, and it seems likely that it is an altered version of that original text. The Anacreontic song was also used by...
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National anthem (redirect from National song)
wrote the tune for "The Anacreontic Song", which became the tune for the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". The author of "God Save the King"...
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English Americans (category English diaspora in the United States)
the 18th-century English song "The Anacreontic Song" written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. The lyrics...
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powerful convivial talents and the author of several spirited, and Anacreontic¹ songs” many of which are now attributed to others. He was said to be always...
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Anacreon (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
very unlike what we call "Anacreontic" poetry as to make the contrast of style as great as the word might seem to imply. The tone of Anacreon's lyric effusions...
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R. J. S. Stevens (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
wrote their club song "The Anacreontic Song", which, considerably altered and with new words, is now the national anthem of the USA, "The Star-Spangled Banner"...
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described as "sung by the Anacreontic Society", has no obvious connection, being concerned with Cook's landing rather than the subsequent deportation...
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production – the produce of the ingenious Author's leisure hours.' It contained: Ancient Hebrew Poesy Restored On the Anacreontic songs On Greek accents...
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ᴗ ᴗ – ... Choriambic: – ᴗ ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – ... Ionic: ᴗ ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – – ... Anacreontic: ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ᴗ – – ... Bacchiac: ᴗ – – ᴗ – – ... Dochmiac: ᴗ – – ᴗ – ....
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(Cherubini), the title of an 1803 opera by Luigi Cherubini "To Anacreon in Heaven", the official song of the Anacreontic Society and the melody of the U.S. national...
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Andrew Reamer. The Star-Spangled Banner or Anacreontic Song - 1760 76 (medley); Yankee Doodle - 1770, The Girl I Left Behind - 1795 and The British Grenadiers...
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Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (category Wikipedia articles incorporating the Cite Grove template)
cultivate the Anacreontic tradition of short lyrical pieces of an easy kind. He wrote a large number of imitations of Anacreon, Horace and the minnesingers...
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Henry Philerin Hudson (category Irish folk-song collectors)
including the Anacreontic Society, the Philharmonic Society, and the Metropolitan Choral Society. He was also a council member of the Society for the Preservation...
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La Pléiade (redirect from The Pleiade)
and the Horatian/Anacreontic ode (of the "wine, women and song" variety, often making use of the Horatian carpe diem topos - life is short, seize the day)...
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Catch (music) (category Music of the United Kingdom)
output was mostly glees, but his song "To Anacreon in Heaven" was written for the Anacreontic Society and sung by the President after supper; it was later...
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Ionic meter (section Anacreontics)
(word-break) after every metrical foot, except occasionally in the last two feet of the line. The anacreontic | u u – u – u – – | is sometimes analyzed as a form...
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Battle of Baltimore (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Royal Naval Biography (1823))
the Baltimore American. Key's poem was later set to the tune of a British song called "To Anacreon in Heaven", the official song of the Anacreontic Society...
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European Americans (redirect from Europeans in the United States)
song "To Anacreon in Heaven" written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London and lyrics written by American...
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Johanna Charlotte Unzer (section Anacreontics)
views on women's education. She was awarded the imperial Dichterkrone in 1753. She is known for her anacreontic poetry. Johanna Charlotte Ziegler was born...
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– u – u – – | This rhythm is identical with the Anacreontic metre of Ancient Greek poetry, named after the poet Anacreon (6th/5th century BC) from Asia...
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Natalia Macfarren (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
career also included appearing as a soloist in the 1850–1 season of the Anacreontic Society. She then turned her attention to teaching and translation...
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Edmunde Spenser. The volume included the sequence of 89 sonnets (Amoretti), along with a series of short poems called Anacreontics and the Epithalamion,...
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small series of anacreontic verses and a longer epithalamium. Shakespeare imitates Spenser with a sequence of 152 sonnets, two anacreontic sonnets and a...
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Eyes Wide Shut (category Films about adultery in the United States)
December 21, 2023. Hawthorne, Mark D. (1975). "Thomas Moore's "The Epicurean": The Anacreontic Poet in Search of Eternity". Studies in Romanticism. 14 (3):...
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uses the trimeter: ...We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. William Blake's "Song ('I...
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