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The Star-Spangled Banner
Four-part treble arrangement of the National Anthem, useful for many contexts.
for SSAA choir a cappella
If you have four strong treble singers–or a treble choir–then we have the SSAA arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner for you! B.E. Boykin’s arrangement keeps things simple and straightforward, perfect for sporting events or other public use. A brief coda adds some finishing panache and provides the singers one last chance to celebrate their positive message of unity and hope.
Brittney Boykin (B. E. Boykin) first pursued her interest in music during her time at Spelman College, attending classes that inspired and challenged her musical imagination and peaked her interest in composition. After graduating with a B.A. in Music, Boykin continued her studies while attending Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, graduating with a M.M. in Sacred Music and receiving the R & R Young Composition Prize. Boykin has been commissioned and collaborated with several organizations, including a number of ACDA divisions, the Minnesota Opera and the Kennedy Center. She obtained her PhD from Georgia State University with an emphasis in Music Education and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Text
O say, can you see
By the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hail’d
At the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d
Were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?
– Francis Scott Key
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