anacreontic

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By the time that Key decided to write his lyrics for “The Anacreontic Song,” it was already a staple of American musical life.

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

Sonneck couldn’t conclusively identify the composer of the Anacreontic Song, then a musicological riddle.

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

You will be pleased with the Anacreontic, written by Lord Middlesex upon Sir Harry Bellendine: I have not seen anything so antique for ages; it has all the fire, poetry, and simplicity of Horace.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Walpole, Horace