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The monument contains partial lyrics of both the French and Dutch versions of the anthem.
Nonetheless, the album contains some rarely disputed classics, most notably the menacing " Five to One ", the controversial anti-war anthem " The Unknown Soldier ", and the evocative " Not to Touch the Earth ".
Friedrich Kuhlau wrote Elverhøj ( Elves ' Hill ) ( 1828 ) which contains the music for Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast, a Danish national anthem.
The opera is about ancient Babylon, but the chorus contains the phrase " O mia Patria ", ostensibly about the struggle of the Israelites, but also a thinly veiled reference to the destiny of a not-yet-united Italy ; the entire chorus became the unofficial anthem of the Risorgimento, the drive to unify Italy in the 19th century.
Hubert Parry's I Was Glad was written as the entrance anthem for the coronation of Edward VII, and contains a bridge section partway through so that the King's or Queen's Scholars of Westminster School can exercise their right to be the first commoners to acclaim the sovereign, shouting their traditional " vivat " s as he or she enters the coronation theatre.
George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm contains various anthems adopted by the eponymous farm, most notably the original anthem " Beasts of England " and its later replacement " Comrade Napoleon ".
The line " They sang The Red Flag, they wore the black one " contains references to both the red flag as a symbol of socialism and the socialist anthem The Red Flag, as well as the black flag of the anarchists.
" My Prerogative " is often considered a new jack swing anthem, and contains many elements from Teddy Riley productions.
The poem contains his famous words about " England's green and pleasant land ", today known as the anthem " Jerusalem ", which were inspired by Blake's " evident pleasure " in the Felpham countryside.
The CD contains twelve tracks including " Tipitina ," played by famed New Orleans pianist Professor Longhair, the New Orleans anthem " Iko Iko ," by The Dixie Cups, and a ballad, " Closer To You ," written and performed by actor Dennis Quaid who also performs the song in the film.

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In recent years, an unofficial short version of the anthem is sung during Belgian National Day on July 21 yearly, combining the words of the anthem in all three of Belgium's official languages, similar to the bilingual version of O Canada.
Puccini used three of these in the opera, including the national anthem ( heard during the appearance of the Empero Altoum ) and, most memorably, the folk melody " Mo-li-hua " (" Jasmine Flower ") which is first heard sung by the children's chorus after the invocation to the moon in Act I, and becomes a sort of ' leitmotif ' for the princess throughout the opera.
Disconsolate, he pauses in front of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life — and is ironically charged for loitering and sentenced to three months in prison.
After being given just two to three weeks to compose the melody and only a few days to rehearse, Fenton debuted the anthem before the Japanese Emperor in 1870.
In 1865, the first three stanzas and later the first two officially became the national anthem of Greece and later also that of the Republic of Cyprus.
Blow composed several anthems at an unusually early age, including Lord, Thou hast been our refuge, Lord, rebuke me not and the so-called " club anthem ", I will always give thanks, the last in collaboration with Pelham Humfrey and William Turner, either in honour of a victory over the Dutch in 1665, or more probably simply to commemorate the friendly intercourse of the three choristers.
( The original poem has three more stanzas that are not part of the anthem – which are added at the end.
Starr's intense vocals transformed a Temptations album track into a # 1 chart success, which spent three weeks in the top position on the US Billboard charts, an anthem for the antiwar movement and a cultural milestone that continues to resound in movie soundtracks and hip hop music samples.
On the other hand, South Africa's national anthem is unique in that five of the country's eleven official languages are used in the same anthem ( the first stanza is divided between two languages, with each of the remaining three stanzas in a different language ).
Before its re-adaptation a concourse for a national anthem among three patriotic songs was taken place with one of the other songs being Za Ukrainu by Mykola Voronyi.
It suggested that the national anthem should be in the country's three main languages: Fijian, Hindi and English.
After the medals are given out by an IOC or PASO member, the national flags of the three medalists are raised while the national anthem of the gold medalist's country plays.
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (; − 27 August 2009 ) was a Soviet and Russian author of children's books and satirical fables who had the opportunity to write the lyrics of his country's national anthem on three different occasions, spanning almost 60 years.
Example of songs mixing all three influences are " Kad ja pođoh na Benbašu ", the unofficial anthem of the city of Sarajevo, and " Kraj Tanana Sadrvana ".
The anthem was eventually replaced by three other anthems during periods of political upheaval or revolution, but it was restored on April 23, 1918 at the fall of the last liberal revolution.
Another feature of the anthem is that no verse in the three stanza lyrics is repeated.
The three stanza composition is unique in a way that no part of the anthem repeats itself.
He sang at Carnegie Hall three times ( including Great Performances ' Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall ) and sang the national anthem at Dodger Stadium and the U. S. Open.
After the three were executed, the song was adopted as the Fenian movement's anthem.
The anthem was written in two of the three official languages of the Netherlands Antilles, English and Papiamento ; Dutch was the third official language.
San Juan de Ambato, a city in central Ecuador, is known as the " City of the three Juanes ", with Juan Montalvo ( a novelist and essayist ), Juan León Mera ( author of the words to Ecuador's national anthem, and " Salve, Oh Patria "), and Juan Benigno Vela ( another novelist and essayist ) all sharing it as a place of birth.
Nikita's father, Sergei Mikhalkov, was best known as writer of children's literature, although he also wrote lyrics to his country's national anthem on three different occasions spanning nearly 60 years — two different sets of lyrics used for the Soviet national anthem, and the current lyrics of the Russian national anthem.

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Romania's national anthem has eleven stanzas, although only the 1 < sup > st </ sup >, 2 < sup > nd </ sup >, 4 < sup > th </ sup >, and 11 < sup > th </ sup > are sung on official occasions, as established by Romanian law.
The anthem, consisting of ten stanzas and a chorus, effecitvely entered into use on September 16, 1854.
The Hymn to Liberty or Hymn to Freedom (, Ýmnos is tin Eleftherían ) is a poem written by Dionýsios Solomós in 1823 that consists of 158 stanzas, which is used as the national anthem of Greece.
For the anthem, the verses were selected and reorganized in five stanzas of four verses each.
Canada's national anthem has different lyrics for both of the country's official languages ( English and French ), and on some occasions is sung with a mixture of stanzas taken from its French and English versions.
The adoption in 1922 of lyrics containing two stanzas thus created the present situation of the music of the anthem being played twice so as two allow for the singing of both stanzas.
Brazilian law stipulates that the music needs to be played only once in instrumental renditions of the anthem without vocal accompaniment ( thus, in instrumental renditions without vocal accompainment, the playing of the music twice is optional ), but both stanzas must be sung in vocal performances.
The anthem officially has eight stanzas, but only the first two are usually sung.
On 6 July 1973, a decree by the then Raad voor de Nederlandse Cultuurgemeenschap ( the precursor of the present Flemish Parliament ) proclaimed the first two stanzas to be the official national anthem of Flanders.
The anthem is divided into four quatrain stanzas, each containing four lines.
The song has become the " national " anthem of Geneva ; while the complete version comprises 68 stanzas, only four of them are usually sung.
Drljevic is the author of 3rd and 4th stanzas of the modern official anthem.
His widely known composition was until recently the musical setting for the poem of Dionysios Solomos ' Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían ( Hymn to Liberty, 1829 – 1830 ), the first and second stanzas of which were adopted initially in 1864 as the Royal Anthem of Greece and on 28 June 1865 as the Greek national anthem.

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