GB National Anthem

[mp3duck]

Has anyone else noticed that the GB national anthem sounds a bit strange?
It seems to change key before going into the "Send her victorious" part?

 

[Aesir]

They composed a special version of every national anthem for the olympics as they have to be a certain length and I think there are some copyright issues

 

[mp3duck]

Copyright issues?? It was composed several 100 years ago, so there is no copyright!
Any orchestra can record it themselves. The recoding it self is under copyright, but not the sheet music

I swear other countries have longer anthems than ours too!

 

[Aesir]

Copyright issues?? It was composed several 100 years ago, so there is no copyright!
Any orchestra can record it themselves. The recoding it self is under copyright, but not the sheet music

I swear other countries have longer anthems than ours too!

They have all been changed to fit the time of the medal ceremony, the copyright is with other olympics as they each have to shorten it and they can't use the same version from the previous olympics so they have to do it in a different way.

 

[mp3duck]

They have all been changed to fit the time of the medal cermony, the copyright is with other olympics as they each have to shorten it and they can't use the same version from the previous olympics so they have to do it in a different way.

Fair enough then!

 

[craarc]

can we change it ? to something a bit more emotional gstq doesnt really do it for me

the russian one and the old german one were powerfull ours is a bit namby pamby and dont say jurusalem or some other stuff lets have ......... welll what can we have but .. what we have now doesnt stir the emotions imo..