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Anyone who has heard the hymn A Portuguesa, proclaimed in 1911 as the National Anthem of Portugal, will have noticed that the melody of its opening verses (Heróis do mar, noble Povo/Nação valiant, immortal) is quite similar to the instrumental introduction of the Anthem from Vasco. As the first one is older, it can be deduced that the composer Lamartine Babo sought inspiration for the introductory melody of the anthem he composed for Vasco in the late 1940s.