h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's all your fault; I thought you said Schelling.

~jwf~

Before I knew it was a national anthem, I knew it as "Glorious things of thee are spoken" - a hymn which we sang with gusto at assembly at school.

Later, when Princess Anne got married, (somewhere around 1973?) she used that hymn during the ceremony, which was broadcast, among other places, to Germany. Where I watched it with the grandparents of the children I was au pairing. They were quite surprised to hear it.

I promise to continue studying maps of the US to hone my knowledge. sorry!

Schilling? I think Schubert and Beethoven set some of his poems to music.

Chevalier de Saint-George was a great violinist *and* a fine military leader, but his connection with Haydn -- arranging for the performance of the six "Paris" symphonies -- was peaceful. No cannons or bayonets involved . A bit more antagonistic was P.D.Q. Bach's "Minuet Militaire," though it was actually written in the late 1900s. Music and mayhem, what a combination !

jwf, you mentioned "O Canada," which, as I understand it, was conceived as an homage to a theme from Mozart's "Magic Flute."

The funniest national anthem was the one for Freedonia. When Margaret Dumont sang it, the Marx brothers pelted her with fruit to get her to stop .

The national anthem of Grand Fenwick ["The Mouse That Roared"] was based on "Men of Harlech."

Some day I would like to write a national anthem for the title character of "Man Without a Country."

>Some day I would like to write a national anthem for the title character of "Man Without a Country."

If you do the lyrics have to be that bit of Sir Walter Scott qouted in the book -'Breaths there the man, with soul so dead...' http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/breathes-there-the-man-from-the-lay-of-the-last-minstrel/

Look forward to hearing it!

I always preferred 'The Maple Leaf forever', but living in the US that's not important



F S

I think you mean Schiller, not Schilling.
Schilling was the former currency we had here in Austria before they introduced the Euro.

Personally I'd rather sing Jerusalem as a national anthem..The lyrics are so much better.

I agree it's a better one to sing

Version by ELP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN11bI1_sZo&feature=kp

But I'm not sure it makes a good national anthem.

I think it describes GB so much better though.

"I think you mean Schiller, not Schilling. winkeye
Schilling was the former currency we had here in Austria before they introduced the Euro." [Tavaron da Quirm]

I was hoping no one would notice my error .

"If you do the lyrics have to be that bit of Sir Walter Scott qouted in the book -'Breaths there the man, with soul so dead" [Florida Sailor]

That passage already has been set to music -- I sang it in high school. That means I don't have to do it myself .

"I always preferred 'The Maple Leaf forever', but living in the US that's not important"

I'm partial to "Maple leaf rag," but I don't think there are any countries that it could logically be the national anthem for. Not even a state song for Virginia, which is mentioned in the lyrics

["I come from old Virginny, from a town not on the map.
I have no wealth to speak of, 'cept the clothes that's on my back..."]