| Show NATIONAL AlliS AmS Appended to the ot of the LI Librarian br of at Congress for the fl fiscal cal year ending June 30 20 1909 1009 Is time the ment ot of several new publications none norfe or of which however Is for free tion Among them nrc ar A List or of Geo Geographical graphical Atlases In the Library of Congress complied compiled under the direction or of P Lee e Phillips chief DivisIon or of Maps and Charts Report on Tile The Star Sp Banner Hall Hail America and Doodle compiled b by O 0 G T chief of Music The or of the Company o of London 4 A L LA I IA A Portrait Index an Index to per por traits In nooks and period periodicals lenIs S Tho Report on the tho fo four r national songs mentioned Is or of general Interest It 11 contains pages of text and 23 illustrations The Tho aim has been to secure from the existing mass of at lit lIl literature a correct version or of both text and music Re S Samuel muel F Smiths AmerIca the Report says as In part that It Is hardly fair Calr to consider the tho music as borrowed for tor while the tho air p properly perly belongs t to time English na anthem anthom It was none tho less a heritage or of the English colonies In America and that It was so considered Is clearly shown by the great groat n crumber ot of songs written to suit the music dur durIng during Ing and Immediately alter after the Revolution tion Two Questions are aro raised relative to The Banner how Hot came the tho words to be wedded to the air To In Heaven and Where was the song first sung In pUblic Both at there aro discussed Cussed at considerable length In the Report A comparison Is made mado between the melody as It ap appears appears pears In the Vocal Enchantress 1783 the earliest curliest version In the tho Library or of Congress and tIm the version used for Paines Adams and amid Liberty Libert In the American Musical Miscellany and with the tho version In the Iu Miscellany lan 1804 1504 reproductions or of e each ch of at these earl early versions being provided Then recent sonS song songbooks books published between 11 2 and 1900 selected at random are aro compared with John Sousas National Patri otlo and Airs of at all Lands 1890 1800 complied by authority for tor use usein In the tho United States Navy The Tho result rosult Is said to be 00 no less surprisinG than In According to tho Report Hall Hail Co Columbia lumbia was ves written In imi 1798 1793 at Ohio tho time or of the trouble with France It made madea a strong appeal to the tho or of ortho the tho countr country and containing no aliu to either France or England be 00 became came very popular with all parties and soon lIoon developed d Into a na national national song The Tho author Is Joseph Hopkinson Tho music or of this song has hils suffered more changes than The Tho Banner moro more than half haIr or of the bars a of which It consists show In lag variations Yankee Doodle began the tho Report says probably os as n a march tune to which doggerel verses were rom time tinie timeto to time but these have havo alt all dropped Into practical disuse so 80 that now It Is to nil all Intents and purposes a purely Instrumental piece It has not been possible so far to arrive at certainty with regard to Its hIstory or even the true meanIng or of tho words with which the tho soni begins or the ori origin on gin of at the music The Tho tune It played In derision of the called Provincials was adopted by them as a national air |
