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Poll: Should God Save the Queen be dropped for Northern Ireland sports events – and what could replace it? – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk . Retrieved 23 May 2016. The primary evidence for the existence of the Marshal Wade verse is unsatisfactory, and references no first-person contemporary accounts of the verse being sung. Altogether this is a book of considerable interest for the student and general reader alike; it can safety be said that Dr. Scholes has put on record everything of consequence that is known - or perhaps ever will be - of the first and greatest of National Anthems: God Save the Queen! According to one French encyclopaedia, Quid, the music is in fact by one Jean-Baptiste Lully. It was loosely based on a hymn sung when the French King Louis XIV opened the educational institution at St-Cyr in 1686; his mistress, the Marquise de Maintenon, had commissioned Lully to write the tune to be sung by the pupils.
Why some people don't sing the national anthem. BBC NEWS. Published 16 September 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2017. The Battle of Prestonpans, near Edinburgh, was the first major conflict between the Jacobites led by Charles Edward Stuart and the Hanoverians led by General Sir John Cope. It took place on 21 September 1745. The Jacobite and Catholic, Charles Stuart, was attempting to claim the throne of Britain from the Hanoverian and Protestant George II. The verse, which was directed at those Scots fighting for the Stuarts as opposed to the entire country, was rarely sung and was ditched almost immediately after the rebellion ended at Culloden. The verse was certainly out of use by the time the song was adopted as the British anthem in the latter part of the 18th century. During the 19th century, it was used officially in Sweden, [111] [ bettersourceneeded] [a] and in Iceland. [112] [b] It was also in official usage for brief periods in Imperial Russia, [c] in Greece [113] and in the Kingdom of Hawaii. [114] Remembrance Day (PDF), Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, 11 November 2009, archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2011 , retrieved 5 July 2010
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Cummings, William H. (1902). God Save the King: the origin and history of the music and words of the national anthem. London: Novello & Co. It exists today mainly in the minds of some Scottish nationalists who want to make a thing of it - usually to misrepresent it in a historically-illiterate manner as "anti-Scottish" instead of anti-Jacobite.
Max Cryer. "Hear Our Voices, We Entreat— The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand's National Anthems". Exisle Publishing. Archived from the original on 25 April 2013 . Retrieved 17 July 2011. God Save the King" has been sung in Canada since the late 1700s and by the mid 20th century was, along with "O Canada", one of the country's two de facto national anthems, the first and last verses of the standard British version being used. [91] By-laws and practices governing the use of either song during public events in municipalities varied; in Toronto, "God Save the King" was employed, while in Montreal it was "O Canada". Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national anthem and, three years later, he advised Governor General Georges Vanier to appoint the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons on the National and Royal Anthems. Within two months, on 12 April 1967, the committee presented its conclusion that "God Save the Queen" (as this was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II), whose music and lyrics were found to be in the public domain, [92] should be designated as the royal anthem of Canada and "O Canada" as the national anthem, one verse from each, in both official languages, to be adopted by parliament. The group was then charged with establishing official lyrics for each song; for "God Save the Queen", the English words were those inherited from the United Kingdom and the French words were taken from those that had been adopted in 1952 for the coronation of Elizabeth II. [81] When the bill pronouncing "O Canada" as the national anthem was put through parliament, the joint committee's earlier recommendations regarding "God Save the Queen" were not included. [92] If it has been sung in the modern age, it would be either in jest or perhaps by a group which had been misled into thinking it was part of the National Anthem.Someone claimed in a letter to The Scotsman in 2012 to have sung it in 1965 as part of a Boys Brigade service. Possibly? However, his claimed source for the verse is absolutely not credible - as we responded, below. Muthuswami Dikshitar (1776–1835), one of the musical trinity in South Indian classical ( Carnatic) music composed some Sanskrit pieces set to Western tunes. These are in the raga Sankarabharanam and are referred to as " nottu swaras". Among these, the composition " Santatam Pahimam Sangita Shyamale" is set to the tune of "God Save the Queen". Consulting Scholes, he tells us that "Harmonia Anglicana" was a separate publication which "includes no copy of God save the King." 16 Like many aspects of British constitutional life, "God Save the King" derives its official status from custom and use, not from Royal Proclamation or Act of Parliament. [11] The variation in the UK of the lyrics to "God Save the King" is the oldest amongst those currently used, and forms the basis on which all other versions used throughout the Commonwealth are formed; though, again, the words have varied over time. a b Bélanger, Claude. "The Quebec History Encyclopedia". In Marianopolis College (ed.). National Anthem of Canada. Montreal: Marianopolis College . Retrieved 5 July 2010.
The next time it makes an appearance is in the October 1836 edition of Gentleman's Magazine, pp. 369-374 (not in 1837 as Wikipedia wrongly states) in an article about the genesis of the song by a Mr Urban (Slyvanus Urban - the pen name of Edward Cave, the editor and publisher of the magazine). 10Between 1728 and 1730 Wade’s men built the road from Dunkeld to Inverness, connecting Perth and Inverness. Siegfried August Mahlmann in the early 19th century wrote alternate lyrics to adapt the hymn for the Kingdom of Saxony, as " Gott segne Sachsenland" ("God Bless Saxony"). [115] Hymns Ancient and Modern, Revised Version. SCM-Canterbury Press Ltd. 1982. p.504. ISBN 0-907547-06-0. By this time, as per the title of his book, the song had risen from merely being an "Anthem" to being the " National Anthem".
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