The Star-Spangled Banner (2025)
for SSAA choir, piano | 00:02:00
by John Stafford Smith (arr. Melissa Dunphy) | text by Francis Scott Key
There is no score for this work currently available. Please contact the composer for more information.
Other Arrangements
SATB choir, orchestraCommissioned by the New Jersey Music Educators Association All-State Treble Chorus
A fresh, colorful SSAA arrangement of the national anthem of the United States. Originally arranged for SATB choir and orchestra, this SSAA version can also be performed with the original orchestral accompaniment, piano accompaniment, or sung unaccompanied.
Score will be made available following the February 2026 premiere.
Text
The Star-Spangled Banner
By Francis Scott Key
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Artwork by Meg Saligman, photo by Daniel Virgen, adapted by Melissa Dunphy.