![]() With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being difficult to sing. The poem - set to the tune of a popular British song, and renamed " The Star-Spangled Banner" - soon became a well-known American patriotic song. ![]() ![]() (1) ' The national anthem of the United States, based on the poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry", written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, who witnessed the British Royal Navy's Chesapeake Bay bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
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