© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions The World of Music 7 th edition Part 2 Listening to American Music: Folk, Religious, Pop, and Jazz Chapter 4: Religious Music Traditions

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions The Roots of American Protestant Music Comes from both white and black populations Based in rural and small-town folk cultures Made a deep impact on American culture

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Psalm Singing and Psalters Urban European Formal Notated Rural Memorized Lining Out

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Lining Out Begun in England and Scotland Common in rural congregations Still can be heard in rural areas of southeastern United States

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Singing Schools Encourages people to sing together “decently” Participants learned music, sang hymn tunes, made friends, and had a good time

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Shape-Note System Introduced in The Easy Instructor in 1801 Each pitch is notated on staff Used in singing schools in the South

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Traditional Black Gospel Music Emotional Vocal Physical Theatrical Musically Skillful Syncopated Ornate Cross-Over Artists Edwin Hawkins Singers Aretha Franklin Sam Cooke Little Richard

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Traditional White Gospel Music Austere Classical Four-Part Composers Thomas Hastings William Bradbury Lowell Mason

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Gospel Music Today Often Racially Mixed Television All Styles Country & Western Rhythm & Blues Heavy Metal

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Chapter Summary Discuss meaning of the terms psalter, shape-note system, and lining out Discuss hymnody and psalm-singing Compare and contrast black gospel and white gospel

© 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 4 Religious Music Traditions Image Credits Slide 2Fototeca Storica Nazionale/ Getty Images Slide 6White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, by George Jackson Pullen.