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| | National anthem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Few anthems have been praised for having lyrics of any great poetic merit, though the noted poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote the lyrics and music for both the Indian and the Bangladeshi national anthems. | | | National anthems are used in a wide array of contexts. | | | A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is evoking and eulogizing the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/National Anthem of the Soviet Union |
| | National Anthem of the USSR (Hymn, &;) replaced the Internationale as the national anthem on March 15, 1944. | | | In 2000, the old Soviet national anthem was readopted with Mikhalkov writing new lyrics to represent Russia's new non-communist nature. | | | The song was originally written as the Anthem of the Bolshevik Party with lyrics in Alexandrine by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach in 1939. |
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http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Anthem_of_the_Soviet_Union
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| | List of national anthems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | National Anthems of the USSR and Union Republics | | | National Anthem of the Soviet Union, The Internationale | | | National Anthem of the Republic of China (National Banner Song is used as the alternate anthem at international events such as the Olympic Games) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_anthems
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| | Maamme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Finnish National Anthem - history of the anthem, and RealAudio of the song | | | Du gamla, Du fria - the national anthem of Sweden | | | Some Finns have proposed the Finnish national anthem to be changed to Finlandia by Jean Sibelius: partly because Pacius's tune is also used for the national anthem of Estonia with a similarly themed text, Mu isamaa, My Fatherland (1869); and partly because Pacius was German and Runeberg a Finland-Swede (although Sibelius also was a Finland-Swede). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maamme
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| | NATIONAL ANTHEM OF INDIA, INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM, NATIONAL BIRD, FLOWER, EMBLEM, FRUIT, FLOWER |
| | The Indian National anthem, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950. | | | It was adopted as the National Anthem of India on 24th January, 1950 by the Constituent Assembly. | | | The first stanza(out of five stanzas) of the song forms the National Anthem. |
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http://www.indianchild.com/national_anthem.htm
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| | Japan - nationalanthems.info |
| | While in use since the early 1880s as a national anthem on a de facto basis, and the words to the anthem are from the tenth century or earlier, making "Kimigayo" the oldest national anthem in that sense, the government only officially adopted the anthem in 1999. | | | The government presented its interpretation of the meaning of the anthem "Kimigayo" in the Diet during the deliberation of a bill to codify the country's national flag and anthem. | | | Eckert made a four-part vocal arrangement, and the new national anthem was first performed in the imperial palace on the Meiji Emperor's birthday, November 3, 1880. |
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http://david.national-anthems.net/jp.htm
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| | The story of the Swiss national anthem |
| | National Anthem (Swiss psalm) in word and sound | | | A number of other suggestions for a national anthem were made in the years that followed, none of which, however, earned nearly as many votes as the "Swiss Psalm". | | | Numerous attempts were made between 1894 and 1953 to have it declared the Swiss national anthem, but they were consistently turned down by the Swiss government for the reason that a national anthem should not be selected by government decree but by popular opinion. |
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http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/schweiz/psalm/history.html
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| | Selecting kenya's National Anthem |
| | The tune of the Kenya National Anthem is an African Song which is heard in the Pokomo country of Kenya. | | | The National Anthem was prepared by a five-member commission headed by the then Kenya Music Adviser, Mr. | | | In presenting the anthem, the commission noted that it had to reflect the idioms of the traditional music of Kenya. |
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http://www.statehousekenya.go.ke/anthem.htm
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| | national-anthems.net - Lao National Anthem reference |
| | As it was the finest playing of their national anthem they had ever heard from the 4th Jul cerebration this year at the Ambassador's residence, they asked the Embassy for the reference for this music. | | | I am very pround of having the finest Lao national Anthem on CD and it waas playing on the US national day for three consecutive years and listened to by more then a thousand of hornor guests, including Lao key ministers, deputy prime minister and ambassodors of many countries to Laos. | | | Last year, the Vietnamese Ambassador asked the US Ambassador to share with him the Lao National Anthem as they would like to play it along with the National Anthem of Vietnam of the occasion of their national day cerebration. |
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http://www.national-anthems.net/forum/article.php?story=20040706180101913#comments
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| | Italian National Anthem |
| | The music of the Italian national anthem was composed in 1847 by Michele Novaro, to words by the young poet, Goffredo Mameli. | | | This song, known as L'Inno di Mameli has been the national anthem of the Republic of Italy since 1948. | | | The anthem was sung for the first time the next day by a group of political exiles in the Caffè della Lega Italiana of Turin. |
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http://www.italcultny.org/audio/audio1.htm
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| | Polish National Anthems: Dabrowski Mazurka |
| | Dabrowski's Mazurka was officially recognized as the national anthem in Poland in 1926. | | | Polish National Anthem (D±browski's Mazurka) is a lively folk dance with patriotic words written shortly after the country lost its independence in a series of partitions by Austria, Russia, Prussia (1772, 1791, 1795). | | | It is because of this connection that the current national anthem of Poland still contains a reference to Bonaparte and speaks of marching from Italy to Poland, under the leadership of general Jan Dabrowski. |
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/repertoi/dabrowski.html
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| | National Anthems |
| | The sentiments of national anthems vary, from prayers for the monarch to allusions to nationally important battles or uprisings. | | | National Anthems: Home [[* #Politics-of-South-Africa# Africa ] *][ Americas ][* #Asia# [ Asia ] *][ AustraliaandOceania ] [ Europe] Olympic Anthem | | | http://www.national-anthems.net site is dedicated to national anthems in mp3 of countries and territories. |
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http://www.national-anthems.net
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| | The anthem proposes that sublime “now or never,” present in all national anthems from the paion with which the Greeks fought at Marathon and Salamina to the French revolutionary Marseillaise. | | | Romania’s national anthem has several stanzas, of which the first four are sung on ceremonial occasions. | | | The message of the anthem “Desteapta-te romane” is social and national at the same time; social because it imposes a permanent state of vigil meant to secure the passing to a new world; national because it gears this awakening to the historical tradition. |
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http://www.roembus.org/english/romanian_links/imn_national.htm
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| | National Anthem of India |
| | The song Jana Gana Mana, composed by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of lndia on 24 January 1950. | | | The first stanza consists of the full version of the national anthem. | | | Playing time of the full version of the National Anthem is approximately 52 seconds. |
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http://travel.vsnl.com/toursindia/anthem.html
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| | NATIONAL ANTHEM OF INDIA PAGE |
| | The national anthem (Jana Gana Mana) is also one of Nehru's shortsighted ideas and it exposes his intentions of having this as the national anthem. | | | Nehru chose the present national anthem as opposed to Vande Mataram because he thought that it would be easier for the band to play. | | | It is high time all of us realised that it is Vande Matram that should appropriately be sung as part of national anthem. |
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http://www.anthemindia.8m.com
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| | Australia Now - The Australian National Anthem |
| | John Dunmore Lang, who published an ‘Australian Anthem' and an ‘Australian Hymn' in 1826, was an early advocate of a distinctively Australian anthem; Carl Linger of South Australia wrote ‘The Song of Australia' (1860), which was suggested to the then Prime Minister in 1929 as a possible national anthem. | | | A revised version of a late nineteenth century patriotic song, it was officially declared the national anthem on 19 April 1984. | | | On Australia Day, 26 January, in 1972, the number of entries (400) received in an Australia-wide national anthem quest gave an indication of the interest in a new anthem. |
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http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/nat_anthem.html
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| | DefenseLINK News: Project to Rekindle Singing of National Anthem |
| | The project is set to culminate in 2007 with a "record-setting" performance of the national anthem in Washington. | | | Some claim that the national anthem is not known because it's difficult to sing. | | | He and MENC are launching "The National Anthem Project" to reverse the trend. |
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2004/n11052004_2004110507.html
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| | EUROPA - The EU at a glance - The European Anthem |
| | It is not intended to replace the national anthems of the Member States but rather to celebratethe values they all share and their unity in diversity. | | | Without words, in the universal language of music, this anthem expresses the ideals of freedom, peace and solidarity for which Europe stands. | | | This is the anthem not only of the European Union but also of Europe in a wider sense. |
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http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/anthem/index_en.htm
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| | Austrian Press & Information Service |
| | Yet neither of these twentieth century anthems was rooted in public consciousness; and with the population polarized in their political allegiances, the party hymns were more popular than the national anthem. | | | The citizens or members concerned express their respect by standing when the anthem is played or sung, and they tend to revere it like a national flag. | | | On February 25, 1947, the cabinet made a decision declaring the new national anthem to consist of Paula von Preravodovic' text and the melody from Mozart's masonic cantata. |
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http://www.austria.org/nat_anthem.shtml
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| | Slovak national anthem - Slovensko.com |
| | The national anthem of the Slovak Republic is based on a folk song adapted to patriotic feelings in the revolutionary 1840s. | | | The melody of the Slovak national anthem can he heard as a | | | During the existence of the common Czechoslovak (later Czecho-Slovak) state (1918-1939 and 1945-1992), the first verse was used as the second (Slovak) part of the Czechoslovak anthem, the first part being the first stanza of the Czech patriotic song "Kde domov muj..." (transl. |
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http://www.slovensko.com/slovakia/anthem.htm
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| | The Finnish National Anthem — Virtual Finland |
| | The Finnish national anthem, with words by Johan Ludvig Runeberg and music by Fredrik Pacius, was first performed in 1848 by students celebrating Flora Day (May 13) in a meadow belonging to Kumtähti Manor in Helsinki. | | | The Finnish national anthem Maamme performed by The Polytech Choir (RealAudio) | | | Paciuss tune was later also adopted for Mu isamaa (My Country), the Estonian national anthem from 1918 to 1940 and again since 1990. |
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http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/maamme.html
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| | Lithuania : National Anthem of Lithuania |
| | The Lithuanian national anthem was composed by Dr. Vincas Kudirka. | | | This song has become like a substitute National Anthem. | | | When Lithuania became independent, the "National Hymn" was officially proclaimed the National Anthem (1919). |
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http://www2.omnitel.net/ramunas/Lietuva/lt_emblem_anthem.shtml
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| | New Zealand's National Anthems - Ministry for Culture and Heritage |
| | Recognising the difficulties which could be experienced in the singing or playing of the national anthem God Defend New Zealand by the general public, new arrangements of this anthem have been commissioned from Mr A. Maxwell Fernie. | | | The commissioning and publication of these arrangements is intended to enhance the presentation of the national anthem for general purposes. | | | Both of these anthems have origins which have been inspired by the fire of patriotism yet were written under markedly different situations. |
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http://www.mch.govt.nz/anthem
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| | National anthem case court order challenged |
| | Shailendra Dwivedi also said that in the Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act of 1971, it had been stated that any obstruction during rendition of the national anthem was a 'disrespect' to the national anthem. | | | Sitting during national anthem should be viewed as obstruction. | | | If a person is sitting and reading when others are standing in an attention position during the national anthem, and if it is not considered an obstruction, then other activities, too, like lying down, sleeping and eating, will not be treated as obstruction, he said. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/feb/05anthem.htm
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| | Fropper.com Forums - National Anthem: Notice to Center on "Sindh" |
| | The National Anthem is the hard work of poet Rabindranath Tagore and for me, no one has a right to alter it not even the govt. | | | SC also observed that, any tampering of the national anthem will be an insult to poet Ravindranath Tagore. | | | The best protest for this would be to sing the National Anthem in its original form. |
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http://www.fropper.com/forum/message-list.php?topic_id=2766&board_id=20&lastmsg=1#postamsg
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| | South Africa's national anthem - SouthAfrica.info |
| | It was first sung publicly at the official hoisting of the national flag in Cape Town on 31 May 1928, but it was not until 2 May 1957 that the government accepted Die Stem as the official national anthem. | | | The unofficial anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, was a symbol of independence and resistance to apartheid, sung by the majority of the population and at all anti-apartheid rallies and gatherings. | | | In the official anthem of the new South Africa, the two anthems merge into one. |
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http://www.safrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/history/anthem.htm
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| | National Anthem of Pakistan |
| | The National Anthem of Pakistan approved by the Government in August 1954, is a harmonious rendering of a three-stanza composition with a tune based on eastern music but arranged in such a manner that it can be easily played by foreign bands. | | | The Anthem written in Urdu is a unique poetical composition, as in spite of its brevity it is a lyrical exultation for the quintessence of Pakistan its Islamic foundation, ideology, | | | The Verses of the Anthem have been composed by a renowned poet of Pakistan, Abul Asar Hafeez Jullundhri; while the tune has been composed by Ahmed G. Chagla, the well known musician and composer. |
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http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/anthem/national_anthem.html
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| | National Anthem of Singapore and National Flag |
| | The National Anthem was written over 1956-57 just before Singapore gained self-rule from the British.. | | | Then, on 3 December 1959, the National Flag, an important symbol of independence, was unveiled together with the State Crest and National Anthem at the installation of the new Head of State, the Yang di-Pertuan Negara. | | | The composer, the late Encik Zubir Said, wrote the anthem around the two words, "Majulah Singapura" or "Onward Singapore". |
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http://www.expatsingapore.com/general/anthem.htm
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| | The Australian National Anthem |
| | Waltzing Matilda is recognised as Australia's 'unofficial' national anthem. | | | Carl Linger wrote Song of Australia in 1860, which was suggested to the (then) Prime Minister in 1929 as a possible national anthem. | | | Peter Dodds McCormick's Advance Australia Fair was officially declared Australia's national anthem by the Governor-General on 19 April 1984, close to 160 years after the first alternative anthems were put forward. |
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http://www.acn.net.au/articles/nationalanthem
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