An Introduction to America’s Music

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CONTENTS

Listening Guides xiv

Preface xvii

INTRODUCTION 1

One People, One Music? | Talking about Music | Using the Listening Guides

PART 1 AMERICA’S MUSIC FROM

COLONIZATION THROUGH

THE CIVIL WAR 18

CHAPTER 1 “NATURE MUST INSPIRE THE THOUGHT”: SACRED

MUSIC IN THE EUROPEAN COLONIES 20

Catholic Music in Colonial North America | European Descriptions of American

Indian Music | Calvinist Music in Colonial North America | Protestant Music

outside the Calvinist Orbit | LG 1.1. Anonymous, “¡O qué suave!” | LG 1.2. Louis

Bourgeois, Old Hundred | LG 1.3. Anonymous, “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” |

LG 1.4. Williams Billings, Chester | LG 1.5. Johann Friedrich Peter, Ich will dir ein Freudenopfer thun

CHAPTER 2 “OLD, SIMPLE DITTIES”: SECULAR MUSIC

IN THE COLONIES AND EARLY REPUBLIC 44

Song, Dance, and Home Music Making | Military, Concert, and Theater Music |

LG 2.1. John Dickinson, “The Liberty Song” | LG 2.2. Anonymous, “Money Musk” |

LG 2.3. Philip Phile, “Hail Columbia”

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