Battle Hymn of the Republic (William Steffe)

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CPDL #21457:  SVG  Sibelius 4

Editor: Jennifer Lee (submitted 2010-04-16).   Score information: A4, 1 page   Copyright: Public Domain

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Title: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Composer: William Steffe
Lyricist: Julia Ward Howe

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1917

Description: These words, sung to the tune known and generally used by the soldiers in Civil War times as "John Brown's Body", were written in December, 1861, in the course of a visit the author made to Washington. Impelled by the grim reality and significance of the war as it appeared in its nearer aspects, she wrote the verses under the inspiration of intense patriotic feeling, and a great Battle Hymn was born, never to die.

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