TIMELINE: 1540—1865
1540 Juan de Padilla teaches Indians in present-day
New Mexico to sing plainsong
1698 The Bay Psalm Book, 9th ed., with printed music
1737–50 Charles Theodore Pachelbel active as organist
in Charleston, South Carolina
1769 Junipero Serra begins the building of Franciscan
missions in California
1770 Johann Friedrich Peter immigrates from Germany
to Pennsylvania
1770 William Billings, The New-England Psalm-Singer1787 First sheet music published in the United States
1801 Richard Allen, A Collection of Spiritual Songs and
Hymns
1815 Founding of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston
1820 Antony Philip Heinrich, The Dawning of Music in
Kentucky
1822 [Lowell Mason], The Boston Handel and Haydn
Society Collection of Church Music
1822 Founding of America’s fi rst resident opera
company, in New Orleans
1825 First performance of opera in Italian in the United
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