Proposals and unconfirmed anthems

Anthem proposals

Tunes that were proposed as national anthems but were never adopted. Years refer to when the proposal was first published.

Cyprus	2004^a
Ecuador	1865	Canción ecuatoriana
Russia	1917	Gimn svobodnoĭ Rossii
Serbia and Montenegro	2003
United States of America	1861^b	Anthem of liberty
		God save our Fatherland
		God save the land!
		Our Native Land
	1879	Columbia

Proposed as part of the Annan Plan, which was rejected in the 2004 referendum.
Submissions to the Committee upon a National Hymn, as outlined in R. G. White, National Hymns: How They Are Written and How They Are Not Written (New York, 1861).

Unconfirmed anthems

Tunes that some sources (referenced in the table) claim to be the anthem of some country, but no more authoritative source has been found to confirm this. Some of these ‘anthems’ may have been included in these sources by mistake.

	Bhutan	Royal (1968), National Anthems (1975)^a
	Colombia	Sousa (1890)^b
	Korea	Korean (1910)
	Madagascar	Shchurovskiĭ (1890)
	Zanzibar	Sousa (1890)^c, National Anthems (1915)
	Zanzibar	Shchurovskiĭ (1890)

Reprinted until the 10th edition (National Anthems 2002).
It has been suggested that this is a setting by C. Delgado and A. Fortich (first performed in 1880) of the current text.
With the subtitle The Sultan’s or National Air.

References

Korean old national hymn (Honolulu-Wahiawa, 1910).
National Anthems of the World (1975), 4th edn, ed. M. Shaw et al. (Poole).
National Anthems of the World (2002), 10th edn, ed. W. L. Reed and M. J. Bristow (London).
National Anthems, Salutes, and Official Marches as Used in H. M. Navy (London, 1915), 40.
Royal salute of Bhutan (1968), arr. H. Joseph, Endangered Archives Programme, British Library.
Shchurovskiĭ, P. (1890), Sbornikʺ nat͡sīonalʹnykhʺ gimnovʺ vsi͡ekhʺ gosudarstvʺ svi͡eta (Saint Petersburg).
Sousa, J. P. (1890), National, Patriotic and Typical Airs of All Lands (Philadelphia)

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