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In New England, the music was very religious and was vitally important in the rising of American music. The migration of people southward led to the settling of the Appalachian Mountains. There many poor Europeans inhabited and brought country blues and fiddling. As music spread, the religious hymns were still just as popular
They include hymns, military themes, national songs, and musical numbers from stage and screen, as well as others adapted from many poems. [2] Much of American patriotic music owes its origins to six main wars — the American Revolution , the American Indian Wars , the War of 1812 , the Mexican–American War , the American Civil War , and the ...
James Lyon publishes in Philadelphia the "first American tunebook to address the needs of both congregation and choir", Urania, or a Choice Collection of Psalm-Tunes, Anthems, and Hymns. This tunebook offers "something for every kind of sacred singer" and "was the first American tunebook to bring psalmody straight into the commercial arena ...
Pages in category "American Christian hymns" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
It derives from various European and African influences—including English ballads, Irish and Scottish traditional music (especially fiddle music), hymns, and African-American blues. First recorded in the 1920s, Appalachian musicians were a key influence on the early development of Old-time music , country music , and bluegrass , and were an ...
The Quaker Levi Coffin gives an early account of an ancestor of African American spirituals. [9]The black African Grove theater, led by Henry Brown, [10] in Manhattan opens to the public, one of the earliest theaters to feature African American performers in full productions, also training the renowned Ira Aldridge.
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). It is the latter version that is best known today.
Joshua Smith (1760–1795) was an early American hymn compiler and Baptist minister in New Hampshire, USA. Smith was born in 1760 and was a Baptist lay minister in New Hampshire. Smith authored Divine Hymns, or Spiritual Songs , a book of hymns first published in either 1784 or 1791 featuring and popularizing well-known folk songs such as ...