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God Save the King

national anthem of the United Kingdom and royal anthem of many Commonwealth realms
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God Save the King
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God Save the King is a music recording classified within the classical music genre.

Key Facts

  • Country: United Kingdom[3]
  • Instance of: musical work/composition[4]
  • Composer: Henry Carey[5]
  • Genre: classical music[6]
  • Performer: Sarah Brightman[7]
  • Commons category: God Save the King[8]
  • Language of work or name: English[9]
  • Country of origin: Kingdom of Great Britain[10]
  • Publication date: 1744[11], October 1745[12]
  • Lyricist: Henry Carey[13]
  • Has edition or translation: God save the Tsar[14], God Save the King[15]
  • Tonality: G major[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:God Save the King[17]
  • Commons gallery: God Save the King[18]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20], Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste[21]
  • Published in: The Gentleman's Magazine[22], Sions harpe[23]
  • Title: God Save the King[24]
  • Has melody: America[25]
  • Different from: God Save the Queen[26], God Save the King[27]
  • First line: God save our gracious Queen,[28], God save our gracious King,[29]
  • Has list: list of German princely and regional anthems based on the melody of the British royal anthem[30]
  • Last line: God save the Queen![31], God save the King![32]
  • Derivative work: God Save the Queen[33], The Prayer of Russians[34]
  • Copyright status: public domain[35]
  • Form of creative work: song[36]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[37]

  • Community tags: national anthems[38]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3a7900a1-f4a9-3bf6-9f37-9ec2df823246[39]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for God Save the King include God Save the Queen[40], a musical work/composition[41].

Why It Matters

God Save the King has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 200 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

Entities named for it include God Save the Queen[40], a musical work/composition[41].

Related Entities

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Q24521261. wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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