Oh, say, can you sing it?It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have been our national anthem anthem [ultimately from antiphon], short nonliturgical choral composition used in Protestant services, usually accompanied and having an English text. The term is used in a broader sense for "national anthems" and for the Latin motets still used occasionally in for almost 75 years, but few people can actually sing "The Star Spangled span·gle n. 1. A small, often circular piece of sparkling metal or plastic sewn especially on garments for decoration. 2. A small sparkling object, drop, or spot: spangles of sunlight. Banner." Ed Siegel wants to change that. A psychiatrist psychiatrist /psy·chi·a·trist/ (si-ki´ah-trist) a physician who specializes in psychiatry. psy·chi·a·trist n. A physician who specializes in psychiatry. and amateur pianist from Solana Beach, Calif., Siegel wants to lower the key of the national anthem from B flat to G major. That change, he argues, would make the anthem accessible to even the tonally challenged. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1814, during the War of 1812, to the tune of an English drinking song. Congress made it the national anthem in 1931, but the song's one-and-a-half-octave range challenges even professional musicians. Siegel says when you lower the key "every one is able to sing it." In June, he got a boost when the Solana Beach City Council voted to support his efforts to lower the song's key. |
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