IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 278357 accession number: MU.596 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 updated: Thursday 17 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: For voice and piano. Text, in English, of verse 1 printed with music, verse 2-4 printed at end. Words by Francis Scott Key ; music adapted from To Anacreon in heaven by John Stafford Smith. In B♭ major. Music begins on page facing verso of title page. First line: Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light. Refrain: Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. "Note by publisher: 'This song was supposed to have been written by a prisoner of war, on board the British fleet, on the morning after the unsuccessful bombardment of Fort McHenry, in the second war with England, declared in the year 1812. This copy of the words is authentic, as it was submitted to the Author; and revised and corrected by him a few months previous to his death which occurred in 1843.'"--P. [3]. title: The star spangled banner / the words written by Francis S. Keys [sic] (of Baltimore) ; the symphonies and accompaniments composed & arranged and respectfully inscribed to the Officers of the Army and Navy of the United States by Francis H. Brown. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/278357 CATEGORIES ------ category: music DATING ------ creation date: 1843 - 1843 creation date earliest: 1843 creation date latest: 1843 CREATORS -------- maker: Key, Francis Scott maker: Brown, Francis Henry maker: Smith, John Stafford DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 score ([5] p.) ; 34 cm.