Epic songs and poems, monuments, national anthems, official uniforms and national anniversaries are just a couple of rituals of statism. |
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For example, how did I end up pledging allegiance to five different countries at one time or another and sung their national anthems? |
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Salford-born Russell is an England fan, but faces the 68,000-strong crowd before kick-off to sing the national anthems of both teams. |
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As national anthems are rarely sung anywhere except international sporting events, I'd suggest the need for an English anthem is more urgent. |
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And you will also know them by loud, brash post-punk anthems like this one. |
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We use hymns, folk songs and socialist anthems in a male voice choir tradition. |
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In 20 years the huge hand-clapping anthems have changed into being quieter, finger-wagging, with more questions than answers. |
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You've spent too much cold-sweat on false anthems, generic beats, and hyperactive production work. |
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It is not strange that with such a chorister in charge, all solicitude about anthems and voluntaries vanished from the preacher's mind. |
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Rock and roll numbers, soul blockbusters and blues' anthems are knocked out one after the other at a breathless pace. |
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Universal anthems are one thing but in an increasingly homogenised, corporate world, the nation state obstinately refuses to wither away. |
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Each song is souped up with backing tracks that avoid domination, but power the driving beats of the carefully curated anthems. |
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His sectional verse anthems incorporate solos, duets, trios, and passages for organ alone. |
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Given the choice of the national anthems or another wee snifter of the national drink, they made their choice. |
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This recording is the first of two devoted to Wood, so it includes known and virtually unknown anthems and motets. |
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This night was all about the group's ascension to crossover pop stardom and the sugar-coated singalong anthems that got them there. |
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The songs are anthems for those bedecked in shoulder pads and leg warmers, and yet again it seems that what goes around comes around. |
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A semi-circle of tow-headed children waved tiny Icelandic and Canadian flags, as a brass band played the two countries' national anthems. |
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There's at least half a dozen anthems in their set, which with a live drummer could be difficult to contain. |
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A master of the bongo and timbales, he deftly crafts complex and rousing Latin American anthems infused with a joyous intensity. |
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Both bands have the ability to write heart melting ballads and also manage to write gritty anthems packed full of aggression. |
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At the peak of his powers, Handel was commissioned to write no fewer than four new anthems for the service. |
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Mr. Roth also published many anthems and more than 100 sacred songs, for which he composed the music and generally the text as well. |
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The anthems and other musical portions of the services were well rendered by the choir. |
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No church choir is likely to exhaust the interest and effect of his service music and anthems. |
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The second puzzle concerns the incomplete state of the four manuscript anthems in the Christ Church books. |
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Other works include The Nativity for soprano and orchestra, sacred choral anthems, hymn preludes for organ and works for trumpet and organ. |
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As I note-bashed hymns, psalms, responses, and anthems for Sunday, I called at times for more sound. |
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What will the 63-year-old prince of folk, whose anthems were adopted by the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, tell us next? |
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Out of towering brown churches came the blithe music of anthems from the choirs. |
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For these reasons, folk song finds its way into symphonic poems, and sacred songs become national anthems. |
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The mix of fuzzy guitar anthems and geek-boy balladry is nothing new, but the fun is in the details. |
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Both sides sung their national anthems with not a hint of booing, and spent most of the game indulging in volleying songs back and forth. |
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They were, and still are, the gods of geek rock, and their songs have become anthems for the alienated, awkward, and lonely. |
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The voice is powerful, the melodies wonderful and the songs anthems for a lost generation. |
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The young people joined in with the rest of the huge crowd singing and chanting all of the famous football songs and anthems. |
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The Last Night of the Proms tomorrow has dropped some of the rousing anthems associated with it, including Rule, Britannia! |
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Most official England anthems are toe-curlingly dreadful while the pre-match piped music at football matches isn't much better. |
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Little did they know that the songs they sang were originally folk songs re-worded to become anthems for change. |
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Second, Anderson despised and attacked the creed of king and country, the cult of war memorials, national anthems, patriotism. |
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Fronted by Alan Donohoe, they specialise in creating angular working class anthems that are packed with sharp, edgy guitars and socially relevant lyrics. |
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Precursors to today's riot grrl and queercore bands, they broke through and gave women in the liberation movements their own rock and roll anthems. |
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The show is packed full of stirring anthems, plaintive laments and unforgettable love songs sung by a first-class cast and backed by the Lyric Opera Orchestra. |
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And where his songs were once communal anthems for misfits everywhere, his writing is now so coldly inward-gazing that it excludes the interests of everyone but Morrissey. |
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Kendal Choral opens proceedings by singing five anthems in the Anglican church tradition starting with the 16th century and concluding in the present. |
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During the service, a number of anthems were sung, one of which was specially composed for the occasion by the cathedral's director of music, Simon Lole. |
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The repertoire consisted of songs and anthems by various composers with Anne Bartlett conducting and Leah Lefevra accompanying the choir on the piano. |
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Like his father, Alfonso the younger was well known as a composer of church music, writing English anthems for the Anglican Church as well as motets to Latin words. |
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Priory has now issued two collections of his anthems, the first celebrating Easter to Trinity, this one devoted mainly to Advent as far as the Passion. |
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While the arrangements on Love often begin promisingly, they eventually succumb to goopy balladry, attempted anthems and guitar climaxes that go nowhere. |
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One of the most distinctive guitarists of the punk generation, his searing, choking guitar lines lift the songs above the thrash punk anthems they would later become. |
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Around the Sun is no more rocking than the last two, and perhaps less, tending to midtempo ballads and anthems with a few laid-back grooves along the way. |
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Even the retro-metallic anthems of Passions tend to skitter dangerously on some trebly echophonic cliff, rather than plod into a Pleistocene tar pit. |
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After all this is the season that provides us with our anthems, to which we'll still be humming or dancing away to in 6 months time in the depths of winter. |
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Conducted by Harry Christophers, the choir will perform motets, anthems and religious songs by the 17th century English composers Robert Ramsey and Henry Purcell. |
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These new anthems of despair paint their subjects as forced off welfare by uncompassionate conservatives and trapped in low-wage jobs that lead nowhere. |
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He cast himself as a sort of acoustic space cadet, a folksy psychadelicist who tries to hard for weird chords and lets-scream-this-all-together humanist anthems. |
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Some 500 women in traditional dress were on hand to welcome the delegation with smiles and flowers as a brass band played the EU and North Korean anthems. |
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The red and yellow Catalan flag was displayed prominently around the stadium while the full range of Catalan anthems washed down from the stands throughout the game. |
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Many of these same songs became anthems of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, their messages of faith and determination stoking freedom marches and rallies. |
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The duo's third album, Rubber Factory, is jammed with blues 'n' garage rock anthems that surely destine these rust belt heroes for global greatness. |
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Unlike the national anthem, most of the anthems of the autonomous communities have words. |
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Expect some of their most electrifying rock anthems such as Running With The Pack, Ready For Love and Rock Steady. |
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On paper, bluegrass renditions of heavy metal anthems sounds like a terrible idea but Hayseed Dixie have been a surprise success. |
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Two of the anthems were played at the 1742 inauguration of the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, a hall dedicated to chamber music. |
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Marblehead Johnson, Autophilia and Slight Return have become indie anthems and they were delivered and received with mutual energy. |
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Jones, a boxing fan, has performed national anthems before a number of boxing matches. |
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A number of songs are used as Scottish anthems, most notably Scotland the Brave, Flower of Scotland, and Scots Wha Hae. |
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Right from their composition the four anthems have been popular and regularly played in concerts and festivals even during Handel's own lifetime. |
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While most national anthems are in the standard major scale, there are a number of notable exceptions. |
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The author of God Save the Queen, one of the oldest and well known anthems in the world, is unknown and disputed. |
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The national anthems of both Bangladesh and India were written in Bengali by the Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. |
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National symbols, anthems, myths, flags and narratives were assiduously constructed by nationalists and widely adopted. |
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There are also several regional, unofficial anthems, like the Badnerlied or the Niedersachsenlied. |
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The two presidents saluted the Tunisian and Nigerien flags as the two countries' national anthems were performed. |
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Although anthems are used to distinguish states and territories, there are instances of shared anthems. |
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In this World Cup edition, the national anthems were played only in the final. |
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The composer George Frideric Handel was commissioned to write four new anthems for the coronation, including Zadok the Priest. |
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When teams from two different nations play each other, the anthems of both nations are played, the host nation's anthem being played last. |
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Pairing new wave pop with angstridden anthems, they rope in pals from Weezer, AFI and Death Cab For Cutie for added oomph. |
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They're still dab hands at reeling out both heartfelt indie ballads such as Tracers and rousing guitar-led anthems such as Arcadia. |
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The music is in four sections and characterised by a more refined and distinguished air than the other anthems. |
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Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu, the national anthem of Kenya, is one of the first national anthems to be specifically commissioned. |
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The choir sang a selection of Christmas anthems at the service just before the big day. |
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National anthems rose to prominence in Europe during the 19th century, but some originated much earlier. |
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Sullivan flourished under the training of the Reverend Thomas Helmore, master of the choristers, and began to compose anthems and songs. |
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National symbols and flags, national anthems, national languages, national myths and other symbols of national identity are highly important in nationalism. |
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There may also be royal anthems, presidential anthems, state anthems etc. |
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Composers resumed writing English anthems, although the practice of setting Latin texts continued among composers employed by Elizabeth's Chapel Royal. |
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Zimbabwe and Namibia have since adopted new national anthems. |
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Breakout, This Is A Call, Monkeywrench, the anthems just kept on coming and nobody, including the band, wanted it to stop, even after it was well past the two-hour mark. |
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The teenagers have created a series of punkish, acoustic-driven covers of chart-conquering pop hits and have also released their own arena-shaking anthems. |
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He is also the writer of the national anthems of Bangladesh and India. |
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The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in style. |
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Other countries had their anthems composed by locally important people. |
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The genre of coronation anthems was not exclusive to Handel. |
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Although crowds singing anthems during matches was commonplace, there was no precedent for the anthem to be sung before a game commenced in any sport. |
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