An Introduction to America’s Music

AMERICA’S MUSIC PART ONE FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR A lthough native peoples had been making music in North America ...

20 C ommercial and religious outreach spurred Europe’s settlement of North America. The southern arm of the process was controll ...

CHAPTER 1 | CATHOLIC MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 21 SPANISH COLONIZATION For all the violence of the Spanish conquest in 151 ...

22 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR but with plenty of polyphonic singing as well, displayed the variety of a fl ...

CHAPTER 1 | CATHOLIC MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 23 date: ca. 1800 performers: Chanticleer (male voices, two violins, cello, ...

24 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR routes, helping to carry the fl ag of the French king into the heart of Nort ...

CHAPTER 1 | CALVINIST MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 25 CALVINIST MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA If the American Southwest and ...

26 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR PSALMBOOKS IN ENGLISH Both Anglicans and Puritans were enthusiastic congrega ...

CHAPTER 1 | CALVINIST MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 27 date: 1562 performers: Gregg Smith Singers genre: Protestant psalm tune ...

28 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR A comparison of the prose beginning of Psalm 23 in the King James Bible with ...

CHAPTER 1 | CALVINIST MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 29 or chant the psalm, a line at a time, to the congregation, who would si ...

30 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR condemning a custom of worship that had slipped out of their control. Singer ...

CHAPTER 1 | CALVINIST MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 31 American music, the outcome reached further, touching off a process of ...

32 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR As it happened, singing schools proved more than instructional gather- ings; ...

CHAPTER 1 | CALVINIST MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 33 stable from the 1740s to 1775. The religious culture of Philadelphia wa ...

34 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR WILLIAM BILLINGS, AMERICAN COMPOSER In 1770 a young Boston tanner and singin ...

CHAPTER 1 | CALVINIST MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 35 Striking an aggressively American note, The New-England Psalm-Singer bo ...

36 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR interesting to know whether subscribers ran chiefl y to like-minded people o ...

CHAPTER 1 | CALVINIST MUSIC IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 37 date: 1770 performers: Gregg Smith Singers genre: hymn from The New-Eng ...

38 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR second phrase is “clank,” the stanza’s least euphonious word. And then there ...