national_anthem
has definitions from the fields of music,fine art
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation
Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)Meager and shabby by-products linger to haunt our memories of a once mighty protagonist ; a maladroit reharmonization of our National_Anthem ( The Star-Spangled_Banner ) ; a poor attempt to write an idiomatic jazz concerto ; a circus polka for elephants ; his hopes that the tunes from his old music might be used for popular American commercial songs ! Related terms hymn anthem Star-Spangled_Banner the_star-spangled_banner Marseillaise |
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