what key was that in?

I was going to say "Still better than Nickelback" but see I have been beaten.

/I'm at 2:11, I think I can make it.

it gets easier as it goes on because songs start ending...what asshole country has a 4:35 national anthem? sheesh.

I want my medal. made of chocolate.

busy chillin': .what asshole country has a 4:35 national anthem

Yeah, I want to know too.

downstairs


Well how long is ours, if you sing all the verses, and not just the first?

By ours I meant USA... not sure what country you're from...

versus?!?!? whoa...well, according to this it is 2:49

I'm a yankee that didn't know that second verse even existed until right now. wowwee.

verses

ffs

mr lawson: what key was that in?

Asia Minor

I'm sorry, everybody -- I think it's wondrous and beautiful. Really.

The cacaphony is inevitable due to dissonant tones, but I'd be fascinated to hear a key-optimised pitch-shifted version.

Also, great to see the bastard child of Avery Schreiber and Groucho Marx on French horn.

mr lawson: what key was that in?

All of them.

busy chillin': it gets easier as it goes on because songs start ending...what asshole country has a 4:35 national anthem? sheesh.

I want my medal. made of chocolate.

All music is of essentially arbitrary length. Composers will recommend a tempo, which along with the written music tends to suggest a practical length, but conductors, performers, and arrangers can pretty much do whatever they want anyway. It's entirely possible to make "The Star Spangled Banner" last ten minutes if you really want it to.

Whoever made the video too recordings from the Olympics of the anthems of 216 nations as played there. They tend to be played a bit more briskly there, for the sake of time, so I have to assume that any over four minutes are probably longer at home.

It's also not easy to find out which is longest, without going back to the source material. How 'long' an anthem is actually depends more on how many verses it has. Most of the time, only verse is played. But the U.S. anthem has three verses, and Greece's has the most, at 158. (Of course, they also have three-day weddings.)

highendmighty: mr lawson: what key was that in?

Asia Minor

: I see what you did here

According to the notes at YT, the last one is El Salvador's.

For those interested, here's the actual Olympic fanfare from 1992 that Williams is conducting in the video.

And here's the much better unofficial one, Aaron Copland's staggeringly awesome Fanfare For The Common Man. Some people consider it the unofficial anthem of the entire world. Which isn't too far off from what the Olympic Fanfare is supposed to represent.

nmemkha: Would it be possible, if you listen long enough, to pick out "The Star Spangled Banner" from the din?

/I ain't gonna try it
//What do you mean ain't ain't a word?!

Ain't is a word. It's a fine word.

/recovering prescriptivist

mr lawson: what key was that in?

that was the key of locust

Wow, subby was dead on with that... yikes!

That was exactly what I expected.