This document contains sheet music for all common instruments to play The Star Spangled Banner, also known as the sheet music to the National Anthem of the United States of America. You can view the sheet music online or download the individual parts arranged for all common concert band instruments. If you do not see your instrument listed please scroll to the bottom of the page and try one of the the other instruments. Most musicians will be able to find at least one instrumental part that matches their range and preferred key signature.
Free Sheet Music to The Star Spangled Banner For Common Concert Band Instruments and Voice
Are you looking for sheet music containing the words, lyrics, or music to The Star Spangled Banner? The documents below contain the words, lyrics, and music of the American National Anthem. You can view the sheet music or download the individual parts arranged for standard concert band instrumentation.
Origin of the Star Spangled Banner Song and Lyrics
The poem that would become the lyrics to our US National Anthem was composed in 1814 by Francis Scott Key as he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during what we now call the War of 1812. A few months later it was joined together with the music to a popular British drinking song of the day and The Star Spangled Banner was born. Complete lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner are included at the bottom of this document. Contrary to popular thought, the original words to the American National Anthem include four complete verses. Traditionally we sing only the first of the four. For more interesting facts about the Star Spangled Banner please visit this article at Suite101.com.
Links are also provided below to allow you to download and print the sheet music to "The Star Spangled Banner," our American National Anthem. As you can see from the music shown below, the instrumental parts included in this download contain the melody only.
Please note that if your instrument is not listed here you can probably play one of the other instruments instead. Find a specific instrument in the list below that matches the playing range of your instrument. For example, depending on your level of skill violins can often play flute, trumpet, or alto sax parts. The only problem with this might be the key signature that the other instrument plays in.
The Star Spangled Banner For Voice/Vocals [PDF] Melody line part for vocalists and singers
The Star Spangled Banner For Flute[PDF][Sibelius] For use by flutists, bell players, guitar, and other instruments pitched in C
The Star Spangled Banner For Clarinet [PDF][Sibelius] For use by soprano and bass clarinet players and other instruments pitched in B-Flat
The Star Spangled Banner For Alto Saxophone [PDF][Sibelius] For use by alto and baritone sax players and other instruments pitched in E-Flat
The Star Spangled Banner For Trumpet or Tenor Sax[PDF][Sibelius] For use by B-flat trumpet players. May be playable by tenor saxophone as well.
The Star Spangled Banner For French Horn [PDF][Sibelius] For use by french horn players and other instruments pitched in F
The Star Spangled Banner For Trombone [PDF][Sibelius] For use by trombonists, baritone players, and bass guitar players
The Star Spangled Banner For Tuba[PDF][Sibelius] For use by tuba players pitched in B-Flat
The Star Spangled Banner Full Score[PDF][Sibelius] The full score of the Star Spangled Banner with parts for all instruments.
O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, 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?
On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mist of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream ’Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation, Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n-rescued land Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Chad Criswell
- re: Were is the soprano sax sheet music
|SAdministrator
|2008-11-03 20:06:11
Daniel wrote:
why the h*** is there not a soprano sax part in the song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I should just delete your post for being so rude, but instead I will point out the fact that since the soprano sax is normally pitched in B-flat then you can just play the normal tenor sax part. Try the tenor sax part and remember that being nice usually gets better results than being rude.
If people would look, the parts they are looking for are with someone else's.Example: The Star Spangled Banner in French Horn- for use by french horn players and other instruments pitched in F.If only people would look rather than posting rude comments.
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