This piece of sheet music bearing the words and music of "The Star Spangled Banner" will be auctioned on Dec. 3. In the 1800s, it was owned by Mary Barnitz of York County, Pa. Also of interest ...

Oh Say Can You See …half a million dollars? A rare first edition of the sheet music for “The Star-Spangled Banner” sold for $506,500 at Christie’s Auction House in New York Friday ...

The “Pariotic Song,” as the sheet music unfortunately misspells ... the original Francis Scott Key manuscript of “The Star-Spangled Banner” alongside the tattered flag that inspired ...

Levy delighted in retelling the story through the years of how the acquisition of the desired and highly collectible copy of “The Star-Spangled Banner” sheet music nearly slipped through his ...

as indicated on the sheet music, was 'con spirito' (in a lively manner). It was meant to be fast-paced, bouncy." In the early 20th century, some arguments over making "The Star-Spangled Banner ...

In 1844, the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator published “A New Version of the National Song,” with lyrics by a man named E. A. Atlee. Although no music was printed, every reader would have ...

The rousing Star-Spangled Banner is arguably the US's best known ... mother earth had opened and was vomiting shot and shell in a sheet of fire and brimstone," he observed. But as the smoke ...