This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...slightly changed as follows: --St. i. 1.1, "God save great George our King" as in the Gentleman's Magazine. St. fi. 1. 3, Scatter our enemies. St. ii. 11. 6, 7, On thee our hopes we fx, God save us all. Then follows the additional stanza as in the Gentleman't Magazine, but with the 6th line thus: --"With Heart and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...slightly changed as follows: --St. i. 1.1, "God save great George our King" as in the Gentleman's Magazine. St. fi. 1. 3, Scatter our enemies. St. ii. 11. 6, 7, On thee our hopes we fx, God save us all. Then follows the additional stanza as in the Gentleman't Magazine, but with the 6th line thus: --"With Heart and Voice to sing." This curious alteration is probably due to the engraver, but the examples given above show the manner in which the words were adapted to the circumstances of the time. It is also worthy of remark that while in the later edition of Thesaurus Musicus the worils and melody were both revised, the index retains the first line as in Ilarmonia Anglicana, " God save our Lord the King." The air now rapidly increased in popularity, and after a time took its present position as the National Anthem of England. 5. It was not until 1795 that the authorship was claimed for Carey by his youngest son, George Saville Carey, avowedly with the object of obtaining a pension as a reward for the public service rendered by his father in writing the "Loyal Song." George Carey, in his account of the matter in 1799, quotes "God save the King," in 4 stanzas, of which the 3rd is that given in the Gentleman's Magazine, and the 4th is: --"Ixng grant that Marshal Wade May by thy mighty aid, Victory bring; May he sedition hush. And like a torrent rush. Rebellious Scots to crush: God save the King." It need hardly be added that neither this stanza nor the 3rd could have been by Carey, who was dead when the Scottish rebellion broke out. George Cnrey, who was an infant at the time of his father's death, could have had no personal knowledgo of the matter, but he states that he had often heard Mr. Pearce Galliard...
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