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*[[Addey and Stanhope]] - ''School Song'' |
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*[[Bedford School]] - ''Domus Pater'' |
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*[[Douai School]] - ''Ad Multos Annos'' |
*[[Douai School]] - ''Ad Multos Annos'' |
Revision as of 04:37, 27 October 2011
A school song, alma mater[1], school hymn or school anthem is the patronal song of a school. In England, this tradition is particularly strong in public schools and grammar schools.
List of school hymns and songs
Please note: This list by no means comprehensive
Australia
- Melbourne High School - Honour the Work
- The University High School - Strenue ac Fideliter
Canada
- McGill University - "Hail, Alma Mater" (formal) and "James McGill"
- Selwyn House School - O God of All Being
- Upper Canada College - Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven
England
- Addey and Stanhope School/Addey and Stanhope - School Song
- Bedford School - Domus Pater
- Douai School - Ad Multos Annos
- Dover Grammar School for Boys - Thou Whose Almighty Word
- Downside School - Patriae domus decorem
- Dulwich College - Pueri Alleynienses
- Durham School - Floreat Dunelmia
- Eton College - Carmen Etoniense
- Loughborough Grammar School - Our Father by Whose Servant (G.W. Briggs)
- The London Oratory School - Quam Bonum est in hac Fraternitate
- Normanhurst School - The Child is the Father of the Man
- Oundle School - Carmen Undeliense
- Stamford School - Carmen Stamfordiense and In Father Time's Remoter Days
- William Hulme's Grammar School - The Hulme Song and Jerusalem
India
- Bishop Cotton Boys' School - "On Straight On"
- Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram - Cheer Loyola's sons
- St. Paul's School, Darjeeling - The Alma mater
- St. Anns High School, Secunderabad - Scenes Of Our Childhood
New Zealand
- Auckland Grammar School - Per Angusta Ad Augusta
- Dilworth School - St Patrick's Breastplate
- Palmerston North Boys' High School - On! Palmerston North Boys High and Nihil Boni Sine Labore
Scotland
Sri Lanka
- Royal College Colombo - School of Our Fathers
- Girls' High School - Forty Years On
- Trinity College Kandy- Where River Lake and Mountain Meet
- D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo- Sip Satha Sis Wetha
- Ananda College- Dina dina kithu gosa bowee
USA
- St. Albans School - Men of the Future, Stand
- TMI — The Episcopal School of Texas - For the Splendor of Creation
- University of North Dakota - UND Alma Mater
- Dillard University - Fair Dillard
- Pace University - Pace, O, Pace
- University of Florida - "We Are the Boys from Old Florida"
- University of Texas at Austin - "The Eyes of Texas"
Notes
- ^ Mainly used in the USA, from so many of these songs having alma mater as their incipit.