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Topic: Piano arrangements of national anthems  (Read 1921 times)

Offline 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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Offline pianonut

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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

Offline 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 ;D)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
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Offline 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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