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Pages in category "Music of New England" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Beatdown hardcore; C.
"A New England" is a song written and recorded by Billy Bragg, included on his album Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy, released in 1983. It remains a signature song from the early years of Bragg's recording career. [1] In 1985, a cover version by Kirsty MacColl became a hit single.
The First New England School is usually considered the first uniquely American invention in music. The most characteristic feature was that the voices, male and female respectively, doubled their parts in any octave in order to fill out the harmony; this generated a texture of close-position chords that was unknown in European traditions.
"Weekend in New England" is a song recorded by Barry Manilow for his fourth studio album, This One's for You (1976). Written by Randy Edelman , it was released as the second single from the album, and became a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , while topping the Adult Contemporary chart .
"Chester" is a patriotic anthem composed by William Billings and sung during the American Revolutionary War.Billings wrote the first version of the song for his 1770 songbook The New England Psalm Singer, and made improvements for the version in his The Singing Master's Assistant (1778).
William Billings' The New-England Psalm-Singer is the first compilation of entirely American music and the first compiled by a native-born American to be published, [102] first major publication by a singing master, [101] and the first tunebook in the country dedicated to the music of a single composer.
Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan's “Stick Season” is about New England — a topic the Vermont native says he could write about for the rest of his life — but it's also largely about in-between ...
Northern Neck Shanty Singers, a menhaden shanty group, some of whom learned the songs as work songs on fishing boats when they were young men [1] Roberts and Barrand, proponents of traditional British song from New York and New England (1969-) Salty Walt & the Rattlin' Ratlines, from San Francisco