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Thread #34187   Message #1689508
Posted By: GUEST,Red
09-Mar-06 - 05:07 PM
Thread Name: Singing National Anthems at sports event
Subject: RE: Singing National Anthems at sports event
Does Star Spengled Banner not seem to have an extra note in it?
(Ist beat of the bar in Capitols for emphasis.....)

oh Say can you See   by the Dawn's early Light
what so Proudly we Hail at the (this is where I don't get it)
Twilight's last Gleaming?
Isn't the 'ing' of gleaming on beat two (I assume it is in 3/4 time?)
Wouldn't a one syllable note be better than 'gleaming'?