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The best national anthems
France: La Marseillaise After the US’s The Star-Spangled Banner, La Marseillaise is probably the most instantly recognised national anthem in the world. It is certainly one of the most rousing.
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O Canada one of world’s toughest anthems to sing along. According to a British study, in terms of sing-along-ability, the Canadian national anthem is considered harder to sing than the French, Australian and German counterparts.
Denmark is one of only two countries, along with New Zealand, to have two national anthems. The other official song is ‘Kong Christian stod ved hjen mast’, which as a national and royal anthem tends to be heard on military and royal occasions.
Greece Greece has the longest national anthem in the world. It has 158 stanzas.
And even having a national anthem without words can cause problems: Spain’s Marcha Real (Royal March) is one of only four anthems to have no official lyrics, the others being those of San Marino, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzogovina.
The Wilhelmus The Wilhelmus was officially adopted as the national anthem in 1932, but it was written between 1569 and 1572. This makes it the oldest national anthem in the world.
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The suggested replacement, Bill Withers’ Lean on Me, is one of the finest songs ever written and an inspirational tune of togetherness in hard times and thus should continue to occupy that role rather than becoming our national anthem.
About one in five (21%) Democrats would be in favor of the national anthem being replaced with another song. Some of the alternatives to The Star-Spangled Banner that have been suggested include America the Beautiful, John Lennon’s Imagine, and Lift Every Voice and Sing. Subscribe to the YouGov Daily newsletter.
Jana-gana-mana The National Anthem of India Jana-gana-mana, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950. It was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the Kolkata Session of the Indian National Congress.
195 countries Countries in the World: There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.
Which countries have the longest and shortest anthems? ‘Ode to Freedom’, originally written as a poem by Dionysios Soloms in 1823 and composed by Nikolaos Mantzaros in 1828, was adopted as the national anthem of Greece in 1864. The anthem is 158 stanzas long. The Japanese anthem with only 4 lines is the shortest.
Normally one verse only and the chorus will be played. Where a shortened version of the National Anthem is played, it shall consist of the first twelve bars of the verse and the last four bars of the chorus.
Jewel, finishing the anthem in a tidy one minute and 27 seconds before Super Bowl XXXII in 1998. According to Grewal, the average duration is roughly one minutes and 55 seconds.
The Earth Day Anthem lyrics by William Wallace (and sometimes the original lyrics by Barbara George) are widely sung to the tune of Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven to celebrate Earth Day.
During the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, the following lyrics, written by fascist poet Jos Mara Pemn, were employed. Of the Spanish People, which rebirths anew. Glory to the Fatherland that knew how to follow, … On Franco’s death and Spain’s move to democracy, the lyrics were dropped.
Austria, the Country without a National Anthem.
Spain is a country whose ‘national anthem’ has only ‘music’ no words. EXPLANATION: It is one of the 4 national ‘anthems’ in the world, along with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino which has no ‘official lyrics’.
God Save the Queen is the de facto national anthem of the United Kingdom, and one of two national anthems used by New Zealand since 1977, as well as for several of the UK’s territories that have their own additional local anthem.
Most of the best-known national anthems were written by little-known or unknown composers such as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of La Marseillaise and John Stafford Smith who wrote the tune for The Anacreontic Song, which became the tune for the U.S. national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.