List of school songs
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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.
Australia[]
Canada[]
- Upper Canada College – Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven
- Bishop's College School – And did those feet in ancient time (Jerusalem) & Lennoxville Vivat Dicimus
England[]
- Barnard Castle School – Jerusalem
- Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School – Jerusalem
- Harrow School – Forty Years On
- The Judd School – Jerusalem
- King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford – Jerusalem
- Millfield School – Jerusalem
- The London Oratory School - Quam Bonum Est
- Oundle School – Carmen Undeliense
- Reigate Grammar School – To Be a Pilgrim
- Sherborne School - The Carmen[2]
- William Hulme's Grammar School – The Hulme Song and Jerusalem
- - Deva Deva Gaudeamus
India[]
- Carmel Convent High School, Durgapur – Within Thy Hallowed Portals Carmel Dear
- Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram – Cheer Loyola's sons
- St. Paul's School, Darjeeling – The Alma mater
- St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad – Scenes Of Our Childhood
New Zealand[]
- Dilworth School – St Patrick's Breastplate
- Auckland Grammar School – Per Angusta Ad Augusta set to the music of A Mighty Fortress is Our God
Pakistan[]
- Pakistan School Song – This poem (prayer) was sung as school song in almost all the Pakistani schools.
Scotland[]
- Royal High School – Vivas Schola Regia
Sri Lanka[]
- Royal College Colombo – School of Our Fathers
United States[]
- Cornell University – "Far Above Cayuga's Waters"
- Harvard University – "Fair Harvard"
- Dartmouth College – “Dear Old Dartmouth”
- Princeton University – "Old Nassau"
- Rutgers University – "On the Banks of the Old Raritan"
- San Jose State University — "San José State Alma Mater"
- University of California, Los Angeles – "Hail to the Hills of Westwood"
- University of Florida – "We Are the Boys from Old Florida"
- University of Georgia – "Glory, Glory"
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign – "Illinois Loyalty", "Hail to the Orange"
- University of Michigan – "The Yellow and Blue"
- University of New Hampshire – "UNH Alma Mater"
- University of North Dakota – "UND Alma Mater"
- University of Texas at Austin – "The Eyes of Texas"
- University of Wisconsin – "Varsity (song)", "On, Wisconsin!"
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ Mainly used in the USA, from so many of these songs having alma mater as their incipit.
- ^ "The Carmen (the School song)". The Old Shirburnian Society. 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
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- Anthems
- Institutional songs