Likes: IMO there's no question about it. It is:
The best national anthem in your opinon?
IMO there's no question about it. It is:
Last edited by ericdxx; Sep-25-2013 at 18:24.
For me, the best anthem is Netherland's:
Russia's national anthem comes close:
"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause." - Gustav Mahler
I like ours - 'God save the Queen' - the best. I used to think it was very mundane, & sprint out of cinemas to avoid it when I was young & callow. But I appreciate its solemn and stirring qualities now.
However, I do like the 'Marseillaise'. Not the words - they're horribly bloody - but the tune can't help but be rousing. Who can forget 'Casablanca'?
I like 'The Star-Spangled Banner' too, and especially the respectful way that Americans sing it.
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~ Mollie ~
My fiddle my joy.
Equally, who can forget 'Allo 'Allo?Originally Posted by Ingenue
This was one of the South African National Anthems until 1997.
Unusually, it modulates and ends in a different key
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible.
I'm one of the Americans that actually likes our national anthem (too hard to sing? cry me a river), but I think the best national anthem is that of the Russian Federation.
There is something about national anthems - I suppose only a tune with the potential to stir would be chosen.
Anyway, here is a short burst of red-white-and-blue!
~ Mollie ~
My fiddle my joy.
I like Canada's tune, not so much the lyrics. I also like 'America The Beautiful", but of course we're using something else.
I spent a fortune on deodorant before I realized that people don't like me anyway.
My favourite is the Deutschlandlied (by Haydn).
Last edited by Winterreisender; Sep-25-2013 at 19:24.
I am quite fond of "The Star-spangled Banner."
I like O Canada ;-) Actually, while Das Lied der Deutschen used to make me cringe, just a little, I have come to really love it, since I accidentally discovered it in it's original form by Haydn, String Quartet 62, when I bought the Takáks Quartet Op. 76 set about a year ago.
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So far, I think my favorite is the Le Marseillaise. It's also one of the longest...does anyone know of a longer anthem?
Greece has the longest national anthem in the world. It has 158 stanzas, written by the poet Dionysios Solomos (although the cut-down version is shorter than Uruguay’s, which is more than five minutes long).
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible.
My favourite is the Italian. And best sung by thousands of ecstatic Ferrari fans, after a Ferrari win at Monza.
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If it was written by the same man as Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten, it is bound to be good. I never understood why on Earth they would decide to cut it down to one third of the original.
I really like the Swedish one too.
And the Star-Spangled Banner. But "God Bless America" would be a better one, I think.
... yet for us will still remain the holy German art... (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)***God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
R. Kipling
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