Chapter Two “Old, Simple Ditties” : Secular Music in the Colonies and Early Republic
(Public) Concert Music Chiefly European performers - Benefit concerts - Subscription concerts Advertisements (see following slide) Programs – Variety and Length! (textbook, p. 54 & next slide) - full ensembles, solos, etc. - vocal solos, glees, opera arias, etc.
Concert in Salem, MA (21 Jan 1809) MUH 3633 - Music in the United States 10/7/2019 Concert in Salem, MA (21 Jan 1809) DAY 8 (16 Sep 19)
Theater Advertisement (1787)
London Handbill Covent Garden (entertainment district) Play and “opera” Cf. textbook, p. 55
MUH 3633 - Music in the United States Theater Music 10/7/2019 U.S. Theater based on London Musical Formats include: Ballad opera (ex. Gay, Beggar’s Opera, 1728) - The Beggar's Opera (scene) Pasticcio (ex. Arne, Love in a Village, 1791) - "The Traveller Beknighted" Comic opera (ex. S. Arnold, The Children in the Wood, 1795) Henry Bishop, Clari, or the Maid of Milan (1823) - “Home, Sweet Home” (John Howard Payne, lyrics) "Home, Sweet Home" DAY 8 (16 Sep 19)
“How Sweet the Sound” : Sacred Music in the New Republic Chapter Three “How Sweet the Sound” : Sacred Music in the New Republic
Reminders Psalmody – Puritan sacred music “Lining Out” vs. “Regular singing” 1720s – Symmes, Mather, et al. (“Ancient Music” = older, European) Singing Schools Wm. Billings, et al. Tunebooks – music instruction & part songs
Daniel Read (1757-1836) “Sherburne” The American Singing Book (1785) Sets text of Nahum Tate (Luke 2: 8-15) "Sherburne" by Daniel Read (1757-1836) [LG 3.1, p. 59] Preference for “open” harmonies, etc. “Fuging tune” – simple imitative entries (not a European “Bach” fugue) Widely disseminated into 19th & 20th Centuries
Reform (early 1800s) Concerns over secular sound in US churches Reformers push for “Ancient music” [meaning…] “Proper” (old) European tunes (and in style) - The Middlesex Musical Society… (1807) [Reform] Tunebooks using European sources - The Salem Collection… (1805) Edification [reformers] vs. Praise [congregation] Second Great Awakening (1780s-1830s) - Camp Meetings (and singing)
Andrew Law (1749-1821) American Psalmody reformer Emphasis on: European models (US & British equal) Treble melody w/ “correct” harmonization New “patent notes” for music-reading Musical primer: containing the rules of psalmody...[1793] Beginning of “Shape Notes”
MUH 3633 - Music in the United States “Shape Note” Singing 10/7/2019 Southern Highlands (Textbook map, p. 62) Little & Smith, Easy Instructor… (1798) - four shapes – fa so la mi Will God Forever Cast Us Off (Mear), p. 24 Southern hymnodists - publish folk hymns w/ religious texts - numerous books & editions (each favored by different groups) The Sacred Harp (1844) – multiple reprints, editions w/ varying contents DAY 8 (16 Sep 19)
MUH 3633 - Music in the United States Shape Note Singing 10/7/2019 DAY 8 (16 Sep 19)
MUH 3633 - Music in the United States Shape Note Singing 10/7/2019 DAY 8 (16 Sep 19)