An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 2 | MILITARY, CONCERT, AND THEATER MUSIC 59 performance in New York in 1750. Gay’s plot, characters, and lyrics challeng ...

60 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR By the 1790s, with companies established in Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, N ...

CHAPTER 2 | FURTHER READING 61 And since the laws of the time held that the song could not be copyrighted in the Un ited States ...

62 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR FURTHER LISTENING AND VIEWING Music of the American Revolution: The Birth of ...

63 A fter winning independence from England in 1783, Americans realized that the unique political circumstances of their lives o ...

64 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR YANKEE PSALMODISTS Tunebooks, though overwhelmingly sacred in their texts, w ...

CHAPTER 3 | THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW ENGLAND PSALMODY 65 date: 1785 performers: Theatre of Voices; Paul Hillier, director genre: ...

66 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR a different time, so that the text overlaps. (Because this is not quite the ...

SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Andrew Law and the Reform of Psalmody A key fi gure in the transition from “golden age” ...

68 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR published in the Northeast after 1805 show a quick drop-off in American musi ...

CHAPTER 3 | SOUTHERN AND FRONTIER DEVOTIONAL MUSIC 69 authorities and away from God. On the other hand, music centered on praise ...

70 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and ...

CHAPTER 3 | SOUTHERN AND FRONTIER DEVOTIONAL MUSIC 71 Thanks to a mixture of regional, class, and religious prejudices, musical ...

72 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Since the Middle Ages, the technique of solmization, or solfège, which assig ...

CHAPTER 3 | SOUTHERN AND FRONTIER DEVOTIONAL MUSIC 73 the counter (alto). Each of its fourteen measures begins with a long note, ...

74 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR from this world only after singing the melody of Sounding Joy, which he had ...

CHAPTER 3 | SOUTHERN AND FRONTIER DEVOTIONAL MUSIC 75 date: 1859 performers: attendees at a singing convention in Fyffe, Alabama ...

76 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR the United States and beyond to meet, often monthly, to sing from The Sacred ...

CHAPTER 3 | EDIFICATION AND ECONOMICS: THE CAREER OF LOWELL MASON 77 composition with a German-born musician. There, while still ...

78 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR between upper and lower voices, and the energetic effect of the repeated not ...