Ok, this one needs a little explanation.<\/p>\n
I’ve wanted to compose a national anthem of a fictional country for a long time. And in fact, the tune has been almost ready in my brain for at least a year. Only one thing has been holding me back:<\/p>\n
I was afraid that the song in my head is an actual national anthem. So, before I could start working on the song, I’d have to make sure that the melody in question is original.<\/p>\n
There’s about 195 countries in the world (late 2016), and apparently all of them have a national anthem or equivalent theme song.<\/p>\n
Good show!<\/p>\n
Although some anthems are shared between countries, that’s a good bunch of songs to listen to. I had to narrow down the list a bit.<\/p>\n
I ended up listening 77 songs, that being the number of countries that’ve appeared in football world cup along the years.<\/p>\n
Anti-bingo! Neither of those songs had any resemblance with my melody.<\/p>\n
The rest was easy. And now we got NATIONAL ANTHEM OF PREPOSTRISTAN<\/a>.<\/p>\n (By the way, of the 77 songs I went through, my favourites are Montenegro and Senegal.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, this one needs a little explanation. I’ve wanted to compose a national anthem of a fictional country for a long time. And in fact, the tune has been almost ready in my brain for at least a year. Only one thing has been holding me back: I was afraid that the song in my … Continue reading Concerning national anthems.<\/span>