The National Anthems Project

Posted on by Reginald Unterseher

The Star-Spangled Banner and O Canada
SSAA/TTBB, SSA

A simple but important opportunity for choirs to sing for audiences that often would not otherwise hear you is for sporting and other public gatherings where National Anthems are sung at the beginning of the event.

I have arrangements of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and arrangements of “O Canada” in both English and French that you are welcome to freely use. O Canada has been updated to reflect the word change from June, 2016. The words “in all thy sons command” have been changed to “in all of us command.”

Email Me (don’t leave a reply below, I need an email message) with the specifics of your needs and I will be happy to send the scores. They are all designed to particularly be useful for school and community choral programs. They are straight ahead versions, easy to learn, uncomplicated but rich. Assemblies, sporting events of many sorts, whenever the singing of National Anthems is called for, get your singers out there in front of the public! There are now also Three Part Treble Voices versions of both anthems designed for children’s voices without the low notes the 4-part version requires.

Quartets, octets, small groups or large, there are many ways to use these arrangements. The upper voices can sing it by themselves, the lower voices can sing it by themselves, and all parts can sing together, creating an easy 8 part arrangement. Additional ways to sing it are suggested in the score.

This arrangement is registered with ASCAP, so please list my name as arranger in any programs. If you make a video and post it on line, please also list my name as arranger and my web site as the source for the score.

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

Full Score (Upper and/or Lower)

SSA Score

O CANADA

Full Score (Upper and/or Lower)

SSA Score

7 thoughts on “The National Anthems Project”

  1. Dillon Miller says:
    July 22, 2013 at 8:04 pm

    Hello, I teach middle school choir and orchestra in Richland, WA. Would you be able to send me a 2-part Star Spangled Banner, a SSA Star Spangled Banner, and one for string orchestra?

    Thank you so much!

    1. Reginald Unterseher says:
      July 23, 2013 at 5:12 am

      Please send me an email (if you click on the link above, it will send an email with a subject line that I need for it to go to the right place), and I will send the SSA version. I don’t have a two-part version or one for string orchestra, just the ones listed above.

      1. Anne Foradori says:
        April 16, 2019 at 9:50 am

        I am looking for an SSA arrangement of the national anthem. I have a trio of women in my voice studio who are graduating with honors and will sing at commencement.

        Thank you.

        1. Reginald Unterseher says:
          June 20, 2019 at 10:02 am

          Sorry to see this so late! An email to reg@reginaldunterseher.com gets a much quicker reply than comments in here, I’m afraid I check this rarely, and the email that I am supposed to get when a comment is made did not come through.

          I will send that off to you today, though I realize it is probably too late for your purposes.

  2. Laurel Christensen says:
    July 20, 2017 at 9:27 am

    Hello,

    I was wondering if it would be possible to receive a perusal copy of your arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner.

    Thanks,

    Laurel Christensen

    1. Reginald Unterseher says:
      July 24, 2017 at 12:08 pm

      I have sent a copy to your email address.

  3. Robert King says:
    September 3, 2018 at 8:37 am

    SATB, SSAB, SSAA are the configurations that most interest me. Thanks. RK.

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