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    Audio Recording
    When Johny [sic] comes marching home
    When Johnny comes marching home     Composed by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore. Recorded on one side only. Autograph of Terrell inscribed in zinc master. Acoustic recording. Production level cataloging. John Terrell, baritone; piano accompaniment. Recorded at an unknown location, June 1898. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1982. 1 sound tape reel : analog,…
    • Contributor: Gilmore, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield) - Terrell, John
    • Date: 1898
  • Audio Recording
    Star spangled banner
    • Contributor: Sousa's Band
    • Date: 1898
  • Audio Recording
    Yankee doodle
    • Contributor: Gaskin, George
    • Date: 1897
  • Audio Recording
    Yankee doodle
    • Contributor: Clark, Thomas
    • Date: 1898
  • Audio Recording
    The star spangled banner
    • Contributor: The Diamond Four
    • Date: 1898
  • Audio Recording
    Star spangled banner
    • Contributor: Haydn Quartette
    • Date: 1898
  • Audio Recording
    Yankee doodle
    • Contributor: Ossman, Vess
    • Date: 1897
  • Audio Recording
    America
    • Contributor: [Smith, Samuel Francis] - Diamond Four
    • Date: 1898
  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1815

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  • Notated Music
    Star-spangled banner Music has illustrated cover entitled: "Columbia, a collection of American national melodies." Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Merkley, C. - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1877

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  • Notated Music
    The star spangled banner! Music comes with illustrated cover entitled: "Our country's songs." Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Tucker, Henry - Smith, John Stafford - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1861

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  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner Lyricist erroneously listed as "B. Key." Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - [Carr, T.] - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1821

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  • Notated Music
    The star spangled banner 50th edition. Cover has color illustration. Transcribed for the piano by Ch. Voss. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Voss, Ch - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1862

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    The Star-spangled banner Author's ink copy of the poem. At end: Washington Oct 21--40. F S Key. One of the three extant holographs of the poem, the earliest with the author's signature. It was probably copied for Lewis Jacob Cist (1818-1885) and has become generally known as the "Cist copy." Since Cist's time It has been owned by various private collectors. Inserted in gold-tooled tryptych leather frame…
    • Contributor: Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1840

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  • Notated Music
    The star-spangled banner : national song Chorus: SATB; piano acc. Words by Francis Scott Key. Adapted from: To Anacreon in heaven / John Stafford Smith. Referred to in Muller no. 40; does not have number of its own.
    • Contributor: Dressler, William - Smith, John Stafford - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1861
  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Brown, Francis H. - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1855

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  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Loder, E.J. - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1853

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  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner Arranged for pianoforte. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Brown, Francis H.
    • Date: 1856

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  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner For voice and piano. LC copy ML31 .C37 no. 77 has provenance of Marian S. Carson.
    • Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 185?

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  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1861

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  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner Pages 3 and 4 (the first two which contain music) are incomplete--only the bottom half remains. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Jackson, Samuel - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1861

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  • Notated Music
    Star spangled banner Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Stafford - Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1825

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Defence of Fort M'Henry Text only; tune indicated (Anacreon in heaven) The first printing of the text (written by Francis Scott Key in the evening of September 14, 1814) of the Star spangled banner; the title, "Defence of Fort M'Henry," was later changed to the "Star spangled banner." Muller, p. 23-25.
    • Contributor: Key, Francis Scott
    • Date: 1814
  • Notated Music
    Columbia the land of the brave Song later became popularly known as "Columbia, the gem of the ocean." Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Shaw, David T. - Becket, Thomas À
    • Date: 1843

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  • Notated Music
    Columbia the gem of the ocean Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Shaw, David T. - Becket, Thomas À
    • Date: 1862

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