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	The Anacreontic Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Anacreontic Society was a popular gentlemen's club in London, named in honor of Anacreon, a lyric poet of Greece who lived and wrote in the fifth century B.C..
		The society's patron saint was Anacreon, the "convivial bard of Greece." The society's membership, one observer noted, was dedicated to "wit, harmony, and the god of wine." The lyrics of the Anacreontic Song, the first four words of which are "To Anacreon in Heaven...." were written by Mr.
		John Stafford Smith (1750-1836), a court musician and member of the society, was probably the guiding force behind this endeavor and most likely is the person responsible for the tune as we know it today.
	www.bcpl.net /~etowner/anacron2.html (284 words)

	To Anacreon in Heaven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In all probability some drinking did occur at Society meetings, but the primary purpose of the Society (and its song) was to promote an interest in music.
		This, however, did not keep the song from being associated with alcohol, as it was commonly used as a sobriety test: If you could sing a stanza of the notoriously difficult melody and stay on key, you were sober enough for another round.
		The tune was probably composed (there is only one known firsthand account, by Society member John Samuel Stevens) by a member of the Society, John Stafford Smith, to lyrics by the Society's president, Ralph Tomlinson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/To_Anacreon_in_Heaven (466 words)

	1861
		The Ulster Society for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind was established in 1831, and the present Institution was opened in 1845.
		A male and female school is attached to the Institution of the Belfast Charitable Society, to the Union Workhouse, and to the Infantry Barracks.
		The Natural History and Philosophical Society (formed 1821) holds its meetings in the Museum, a neat building in College Square North, built in 1830, and its members are distinguished for their high attainments in philosophical, scientific, and antiquarian research.
	www.lennonwylie.co.uk /acomplete1861.htm (6716 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The case is quite well made that it was composed by J. Sanford Smith for the Anacreontic Society of London in the mid 18th century.
		I wonder at the musical source of the first example, for it seems not to be the 'Anacreontic Song' at all (of the 1777-1781 version in the Library of Congress), but rather the modern 'Star Spangled Banner'.
		'The Anacreontic Song' of the second example obviously is made of the upper melodic part with a ground bass (not figured in the score).
	www.classicalarchives.com /info/anacr.txt (666 words)

	Maryland Historical Society Library: Anacreontic Society of Baltimore, Minute Book, 1820-1826, MS 1793 - Finding Aid
		The volume notes that there was an Anacreontic Society of Baltimore formed in 1820 under the presidency of Edward J. Coale, and that it was later reconstituted in October 23.
		An advertisement of a meeting of the Anacreontic Society was announced in the Baltimore American of October 2, 1807, with the name of Secretary, John H. Hoskyns.
		The records of the Anacreontic Society of Baltimore were donated to the Maryland Historical Society by Edward G. Howard of 1308 Bolton St., Baltimore, Maryland in January 1970.
	www.mdhs.org /library/Mss/ms001793.html (842 words)

	Overview Page: Star spangled banner: Patriotic Melodies (Library of Congress)
		In the mid-1760s, a London society of amateur musicians, the Anacreontic Society, commissioned a young church musician, John Stafford Smith, to compose music for material written by its president, Ralph Tomlinson.
		The Anacreontic Society was founded around 1766, and named in honor of the ancient Greek court poet Anacreon, who in the sixth century B.C., entertained his tyrannical patrons with lyrics celebrating wine, women, and song.
		After the Anacreontic Song had been sung, in the Chorus of the last verse of which, all the Members, Visitors, and Performers, joined, "hand in hand," we were entertained by the performance of various celebrated Catches, Glees, Songs, Duettos, and other Vocal, with some Rhetorical compositions, till twelve O Clock.
	memory.loc.gov /cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000017/default.html (924 words)

	GOETHE - LoveToKnow Article on GOETHE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She was not accepted by court society; it did not matter to her that even Goethes intimate friends ignored her; and she, who had suited the poets whim when he desired to shut himself off from all that might dim the recollection of Italy, became with the years an indispensable helpmate to him.
		Meanwhile the years were thinning the ranks of Weimar society: Wieland, the last of Goethes greater literary contemporaries, died in 1813, his wife in 1816, Charlotte von Stein in 1827 and Duke Charles Augustus in 1828.
		Problems of the relation of the individual to society and industrial questions were to have formed the theme of the Wanderjahre; but since the French Revolution these problems had themselves entered on a new phase and demanded a method of treatment which it was not easy for the old poet to learn.
	www.1911ency.org /G/GO/GOETHE.htm (9427 words)

	Oratorio Society of New York - Star Spangled Banner
		Among the many premieres the Oratorio Society of New York has presented in its long career is the "Star Spangled Banner" in the version that is now sung as the national anthem.
		That song (with a refrain about entwining Venus's myrtle and Bacchus' vine) was written by London composer John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a gentleman's club founded in 1766 for dining and singing "catches, glees, and songs."
		The concert was dedicated to Belgium and featured the Symphony Society of New York with Walter Damrosch conducting.
	www.oratoriosocietyofny.org /StarSpangledBanner.html (218 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - 18th Century British Gentleman's Club
		This droll portrayal of the Greek pantheon receiving the "Anacreontic Petition," includes Zeus in the foreground, Hermes with his winged helmet and Artemis with a crescent moon atop her head, Bacchus with a cup of wine, and others.
		The lyrics have been credited to Society president Ralph Tomlinson, Esquire, although some historians think it was probably a collective effort by members.
		The tune was probably written by John Stafford Smith (1750-1836), a court musician and member of the Society who was also composer of God Save the Queen.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/genre/anacreontic.html (170 words)

	Philip Antony Corri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Corri's ultimate success as a London musician was limited by the conspicuous absence of a performance career, and a general lack of personal diplomacy on his part.
		He was organist for the First Presbyterian and First Independent Churches during this time, director of the Anacreontic Society, and maintained an active involvement with the Baltimore Theater.
		He was replaced as director of the Anacreontic Society in 1826, and resigned as music director of the Independent Church in 1830.
	www.unk.edu /departments/music/corri.html (655 words)

	LRB \| Nicholas Spice : The Pleasures and Vexations of a Amateur Musician who Loved a Grand Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the years between 1770 and 1800 when he was most active, musicians were still happily free of the burden of the past, whether in the shape of the anxiety of influence - the battling for creative identity against powerful individual forebears - or a generalised unease at the achievements of former times.
		The oppression felt in John Henry Fuseli's drawing 'The artist moved by the grandeur of ancient ruins' (1778-80), in which he pictures himself with his head in his hands next to the giant foot of the statue of Constantine, is simply absent from contemporary musical culture.
		English society in the late 18th century was notoriously secular.
	www.londonreviewofbooks.com /v22/n10/spic01_.html (3902 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: What Are The Origins of Our Anthems?
		The Anacreontic Society met from about 1766 to about 1793 at various London taverns, the most famous of which was the Crown and Anchor Tavern.
		The Society prospered until about 1791 when the Georgianna Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire, the leader of London Society, and her lady friends were permitted to view the proceedings from a lattice fronted gallery.
		It is reported that "some of the comic songs not being exactly calculated for the entertainment of ladies, the singers were restrained; which displeased many of the members, they resigned one after another; and a general meeting being called, the society was dissolved." The Duchess had her nerve.
	www.classicalarchives.com /articles/article0011.html (936 words)

	Anacreon in Heaven - TEXT
		The song was written for the Anacreontic Society, probably around 1771.
		The society met every two weeks to get drunk, sing songs and to indulge in some debauchery.
		Anacreon himself was a Greek poet from about 570BC who was noted for his erotic poetry (in the Anacreontic style that he established) and his drinking songs.
	www.miketodd.net /encyc/anacreontext.htm (380 words)

	Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics - Anacreontic Song (2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Anacreontic Song (2) (Ralph Tomlinson) To Anacreon, in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee, A few sons of harmony sent a petition, That he their inspirer and patron would be; When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian -- Voice, fiddle and flute, No longer be mute.
		Note: This poem, "To Anacreon in Heaven," was written in 1770 by Ralph Tomlinson, president of the Anacreontic Society, a social club of well-to-do Londoners, as the society's drinking song.
		It was set to music in 1771 by John Stafford Smith, an organist, composer and tenor.
	www.traditionalmusic.co.uk /folk-song-lyrics/Anacreontic_Song(2).htm (664 words)

	The Star-Spangled Banner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Anacreontic Society met every two weeks in London between 1766 and 1792.
		The meetings opened with a concert of instrumental music by the members.
		After supper "The Anacreontic Song" was performed as a solo.
	americanhistory.si.edu /ssb/6_thestory/6b_osay/main6b2b.html (44 words)

	The Star Spangled Banner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The drinking song that Francis Scott Key used was from the Anacreontic Society, which was a popular gentlemen's club in London (named after a Greek poet, Anacreon, who lived in the fifth century B.C., the "convivial bard of Greece").
		The society's membership was dedicated to "wit, harmony, and the god of wine." The lyrics of the Anacreontic Song, the first four words of which are "To Anacreon in Heaven...." have been credited to the president of the Society, Ralph Tomlinson, Esquire.
		John Stafford Smith (1750-1836), a court musician and member of the society, was probably the driving force (he is also the composer of the British national anthem -- God Save the Queen -- a tune set to different lyrics here in the US which we know as My Country T'is of Thee).
	www.olin.wustl.edu /faculty/mcleanparks/bearswamp/StarSong.htm (864 words)

	The Life of Thomas Paine
		Her husband was a Quaker and is said to have been disowned by the Society of Friends for being married by a priest.
		While Britannia mourns for her Wolfe, the sire of the gods sends his messengers to console "the disconsolate dame," assuring her that her hero is not dead but summoned to lead "the armies above" against the proud giants marching against Heaven.
		These attracted the members of the Philosophical Society, founded by Franklin, and Paine was welcomed into their circle by Rittenhouse, Clymer, Rush, Muhlenberg, and other representatives of the scientific and literary metropolis.
	www.thomaspaine.org /bio/ConwayLife.html (17198 words)

	Star-Spangled Banner: history and trivia
		John Stafford Smith, to whom the tune was attributed, was an important English music historian, as well as a singer, organist and composer of glees.
		Franz Joseph Haydn visited the Anacreontic Society in 1791.
		The club disbanded in 1794 when members resigned in protest after their president forbade the performance of certain comic songs that might offend the visiting Duchess of Devonshire.
	ninagilbert.googlepages.com /Star-Spangled-Banner.html (769 words)

	A.Word.A.Day -- anacreontic
		The US national anthem 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is set to the tune of the English song 'To Anacreon in Heaven' which was the 'constitutional song' of the Anacreontic Society, a gentlemen's music club in London.
		"It was the 20th-century extracts which fired the imagination two extracts from Augusta Read Thomas's l2-part Love Songs - one ('The Rub of Love') a pithy, short Anacreontic, the other ('Alas, the love of women!') a wittily contrived parody." Roderic Dunnett; Voices From Another World; Independent (London, UK); Apr 14, 1999.
		Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
	wordsmith.org /words/anacreontic.html (190 words)

	Herodotus and the North Carolina Oral Narrative Tradition
		[6] Their continued existence on Beech Mountain indicates that oral traditions can be preserved over long periods in an isolated society which is literate but uses writing for limited purposes.
		While their fame rests on Jack tales, these men and women regularly tell a wide variety of tales: tall tales, personal experience narratives, historical or family anecdotes from the Civil War or the early settlement of the mountains, ghost stories, and humorous tales (commonly called by the German name, Schwanks).
		If there is any truth to the notion that the so-called Anacreontic vases, showing men with parasols and earrings, indicate a kind of Ionian dress, Athenians and Spartan alike must have been extremely aware of Herodotus' strangeness as he was speaking.
	www.dur.ac.uk /Classics/histos/1997/stadter.html (13140 words)

	More info about the poet: Anacreon - references bibliography
		To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee, A few Sons of Harmony sent a petition; That he their Inspirer and...
		"To Anacreon in Heaven" was the official song of the Anacreontic Society,...
		To Anacreon in Heaven "To Anacreon in Heaven" was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, a club of amateur musicians in London who gathered.
	www.poemhunter.com /anacreon/resources/poet-25289/page-1 (716 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Before that time it meant a prelude, postlude, or interlude, or any short instrumental work." ["Elson's Music Dictionary"] Meaning "elaborate orchestral composition" first attested 1789 (symphonic in this sense is from 1864).
		1813 (name of a society founded in London for the promotion of instrumental music), from Fr.
		Boxer shorts (1944) so called from their resemblance to the attire worn in the ring.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=harmony&searchmode=none (903 words)

	Star-Spangled Banner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The music was a setting for another poem, "To Anacreon in Heaven", which was a favorite of a London drinking club called the Anacreontic Society.
		The melody soon became popular in the United States - both before and after
		, at least 84 different poems were being sung to the "Anacreontic melody".
	www.walterbauer.org /starspangled_banner.htm (118 words)

	American Soldier
		The original tune was "To Anacreon in Heaven," an English drinking song written by John Stafford Smith with words by Ralph Tomlinson, Esq.
		According to tradition it was first "sung at the Crown Anchor Tavern in the Strand, circa 1780." Tomlinson was president of the Anacreontic Society, a gentlemen's club popular with upscale London boozers.
		Amazingly, the Anacreontic Society still exists in England.
	www.opey.com /NationalAnthem.asp (881 words)

	South Street Seaport Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was the height of fashion, with concerts put on by the Columbian Anacreontic Society, and it was a hotbed of political discourse, thanks to hotel owner and London radical John Lovett.
		For the first half of the 19th century, the 80-room ruled New York society from its location on Broadway just north of Trinity Church.
		Sidebar on the Tontine Association, which built the hotel.
	www.southstseaport.org /magazine/prev_Summer2003.shtm (241 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Francis Scott Key in 1814 set or wrote his poem "The Star-Spangled Banner" to the melody of "To Anacreon in Heav'n," the drinking song of the popular London gentleman's club called The Anacreontic Society, whose membership was dedicated to "wit, harmony, and the god of wine."
		To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee,
		and may be the work of society member and court musician John Stafford Smith (1750-1836).
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=Anacreontic (176 words)

	Zinger.Org » 2004 » July (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The US national anthem ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is set to the tune of the English song ‘To Anacreon in Heaven’; which was the ‘constitutional song’ of the Anacreontic Society, a gentlemen’s music club in London.
		“Some days passed before I could rid my thoughts of Thecla … who had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.”
		extracts from Augusta Read Thomas’s l2-part Love Songs - one (’The Rub of Love’) a pithy, short Anacreontic, the other (’Alas, the love of women!’) a wittily contrived parody.”
	www.zinger.org /?m=20040702 (214 words)

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