frmusic1-3, Exercise 1: La Marseillaise

Model answer:

It was written in 1792 in Strasbourg by an army officer, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, as a marching song for the army of the Rhine, and took its name from volunteers from Marseille who sang it. It was made the national anthem in the mid-1790s, was banned or sidelined under some later regimes, and was restored later in the nineteenth century. That shows a national song can be adopted, dropped and revived as political fortunes change, and that its meaning changes as the nation does.

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