anacreontic

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The day after Key arrived back in the Baltimore harbor, his lyrics for “The Anacreontic Song” were printed as a broadside titled “Defense of Fort McHenry,” and entered newspapers soon after.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016

He wrote the poem “In Defense of Fort McHenry,” which was later set to the tune of a British song called “The Anacreontic Song” and eventually became the U.S. national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

For those unable to attend, that tale is audible on “Poets & Patriots,” a CD set that includes nearly 30 versions of the Anacreontic Song.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2014

It began as “the theme song, you might say . . . of something called the Anacreontic Society in London,” an elite men’s club for amateur musicians founded in about 1766, he said.

From Washington Post

In illustration of the freedom they enjoyed in her presence and hearing, one of them, behind the curtain, touched a stringed instrument—a cithern—and followed the prelude with a song of Anacreontic vein.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis