America the Beautiful (Ward, Samuel Augustus)

		Composition Year 1882 Genre Categories Secular hymns; Hymns; For mixed chorus; Scores featuring mixed chorus; For unaccompanied chorus; English language; For male chorus (arr); Scores featuring male chorus

Sheet Music

• Arrangements and Transcriptions (1)

Arrangements and Transcriptions

For Male Chorus

 TTBB a capella arrangement
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General Information

Work Title	America the Beautiful
Alternative Title	Materna

Composer	Ward, Samuel Augustus
Year/Date of Composition	1882
First Publication	1882
Librettist	Katherine Lee Bates
Language	English
Piece Style	Early 20th century

Misc. Comments

Patriotic hymn of the United States of America.

The music for this piece was composed in 1882 as a hymn called "Materna." The words to the song were written by Bates in 1895 as a poem. They were adapted for this song in 1910.