Updated April 8, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
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Part I: Colonial Music |
by David Johnson
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| 1640 |
The Bay Psalm Book, Cambridge, Massachusetts, first book printed in British Colonial America, entire Book of Psalms translated into English meter; indicates dominance of religious music |
| Circa 1700 |
Black slaves include songs based on Old Testament stories in their worship services; beginnings of Negro Spirituals |
| Circa 1775 |
British soldiers sing "Yankee Doodle" to mock colonists; Americans adopt it as their own tune |
| Circa 1776 |
"Johnny's Gone for a Soldier," adaptation of Irish folk tune, popular during American Revolutionary War |
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