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quantum

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Piano arrangements of national anthems

on: July 01, 2005, 11:38:36 AM

Seeings it's the time of the year for the Canada and US birthdays, have you made your own piano arragnements of a national anthem? Have you played arrangments by others that you particularly liked? Have you notated your arrangement, and like to share?

I have been asked to play the Canadian anthem numerous times during ceremonies, and my arrangement has never remained static. I always feel I need to tweak it more.

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Re: Piano arrangements of national anthems

Reply #1 on: July 01, 2005, 11:49:47 AM

This was supposed to be in Performance, I don't know how it ended up here. Can a moderator move it please.

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Re: Piano arrangements of national anthems

Reply #2 on: July 01, 2005, 02:25:57 PM

my husband had a friend write a version that was transposed to his voice range. he added a lot of bass and it sounded nice. it's just hand written, though, and kind of hard to read.

here's a site that has many national anthems from around the world:

https://home.planet.nl/~jschoone/index_en.html

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Re: Piano arrangements of national anthems

Reply #3 on: July 01, 2005, 04:49:08 PM

Now that you mention it, I need to jump on the Sousa-Horowitz Stars and Stripes Forever (not an anthem but patriotic enough) for the 4th!

For those interested, access it here: https://www.gamingforce.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=32403

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bernhard

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Re: Piano arrangements of national anthems

Reply #4 on: July 02, 2005, 03:06:35 PM

Louis Moreau Gottschalk wrote several “paraphrases” of National anthems.

You may find this interesting:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33967-2004Aug25.html
(how a composer can infuriate everyone with his arrangements of National anthems

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Best wishes,
Bernhard.

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BoliverAllmon

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Re: Piano arrangements of national anthems

Reply #5 on: July 02, 2005, 04:50:30 PM

Wibi Soerjadi (sp?) wrote one for the Netherlands and an American paraphrase. both are real cool.

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