Oman
"Nashid as-Salaam as-Sultani" (The Sultan's Anthem)

Words by: Rashid bin Uzayyiz Al Khusaidi
Music by: James Frederick Mills, arranged by Bernard Ebbinghaus
Adopted: 1932

The music, in the "Arab fanfare" style of anthem is taken from a salute to the Sultan by a British ship in 1932. The bandmaster of the HMS Hawkins, while visiting Muscat, was asked to write a saultation for the Sultan on the occasion of his visiting the Hawkins. The tune was composed and first performed on the occasion of the visit, December 10, 1932. Originally, there were different words to the anthem. When the current sultan, Qaboos bin Said Al Said, took power in 1970 and changed the name of the country to Oman (from Muscat and Oman), new words were written. A slight change to the harmonization was made in 1996.

Special thanks to: Josh Lim for providing the Arabic text lyrics and to Michael Jamieson Bristow for some of this information.