In this example, "the sky" stands for more than just the sky but represents the entire heavens, and the water represents the seas; the plants represent the entire natural world of flora and fauna. A final example from Chapter 1 is "no eyes can see us as we crawl under our seat and ...
Created by Greek composer Spýros Samáaras to words written by his fellow countryman, poet Kostís Palamás, the Olympic Anthem is in fact the oldest property of the modern Games. The renowned composer was given the task of composing it to give a musical identity to the start of the1896 ...
"Brittannia rules the wave!" In joyful strains then let us sing "Advance Australia fair!" Verse Three Beneath our radiant southern Cross, We'll toil with hearts and hands; To make this Commonwealth of ours Renowned of all the lands; For those who've come across the seas We've boundless...
was “rent…”“The wind” wafted “to us the odor of leaves that” hung “wilted on the dripping branches…” as your “funeral anthem of the dying year” played on. “The whole body of the air” was “enriched by” the “calm, slow radiance” of your days, and so we listened w...
“The Star-Spangled Banner”Instrumental version of the U.S. national anthem.(more) The Star-Spangled Banner, national anthem of the United States, with music adapted from the anthem of a singing club and words by Francis Scott Key. After a century of general use, the four-stanza song was...
“God Save the King” was performed in two London theaters, one theDrury Lane; and in the following yearGeorge Frideric Handelused it in hisOccasional Oratorio,which dealt with the tribulations of theJacobiterebellion of 1745–46. Thereafter, the tune was used frequently by composers making ...
Video: © University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A Britannica Publishing Partner) Audio “Advance Australia Fair” The first verse of the national anthem of Australia, “Advance Australia Fair”; performed... VIEW MOREin these related Britannica articles: ...
Lift Every Voice and Sing, hymn composed by the American writer and activist James Weldon Johnson and his younger brother, John Rosamond Johnson. Since it was first performed in 1900, it has come to be widely regarded as the Black American national anthem. Drawing on the tradition of Black ...
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Soviet Union, former northern Eurasianempire(1917/22–1991) stretching from theBalticandBlackseas to thePacific Oceanand, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.’s):Armenia,Azerbaijan, Belorussia (nowBelarus),...