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Understanding the music that early Americans chose to sing and play gives us a better understanding of the colonists themselves. Their music included ballads, dance tunes, folk songs and parodies, comic opera arias, drum signals, psalms, minuets, and sonatas.
Part One covers music composed and published in America between the time of the Pilgrims and Puritans in the 17th century and the first performance of a large scale oratorio by the Handel & Haydn Society. Part Two lists music composed and performed in America between 1820 and 1920.
Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. The history began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North America.
Based on decades of research, the Colonial Music Institute's research facilitated the creation of a number of research databases on Early American music and dance.
Since little of the music played and sung and composed by early Americans ever finds its way into the concert hall, early Ameri-can music tends to be overlooked or held in low esteem by arbi-ters of musical taste.
Many of the early American musicians wrote about war and war figures like George Washington. Besides war, religion also was relevant in society which therefore means it was relevant in music. The second American composer, James Lyon, wrote many hymns, anthems, and psalms.
The kind of music played by today’s bands, that is marches, patriotic tunes, music for special events and ceremonies—this music was played in eighteenth-century America by a “band of music” or “band of musick.” These terms referred to a specific group of musicians usually associated with the army.