1. Review Sheet #1 is now posted!
Use these questions to guide your studying.
Do not forget the supplemental reading.

2. Chapter Two
“Old, Simple Ditties” : Secular Music in the Colonies and Early Republic

3. (Public) Concert Music
Chiefly European performers - Benefit concerts - Subscription concerts
Advertisements (see following slide)
Programs – Variety and Length! (textbook, p. 57 & next slide) - full ensembles, solos, etc. - vocal solos, glees, opera arias, etc.

4. Concert in Salem, MA (21 Jan 1809)
MUH Music in the United States
6/24/2018
Concert in Salem, MA (21 Jan 1809)
DAY 7 (4 Sep 17)

5. Theater Advertisement (1787)

6. Theater Music 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, of the Maid of Milan (1823) - “Home, Sweet Home” (John Howard Payne, lyrics) "Home, Sweet Home"

7. Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Francis Hopkinson ( )
Philadelphia lawyer, etc.
Musical Amateur
Collection of Plain Tunes… (1763)
Temple of Minerva (1781) - 1st (?) American opera
Seven songs for the Harpsichord (1783)
Ex. "Beneath a Weeping Willow's Shade"
Signer of the Declaration of Independence

8. “How Sweet the Sound” : Sacred Music in the New Republic
Chapter Three
“How Sweet the Sound” : Sacred Music in the New Republic

9. Reminders Psalmody – Puritan sacred music
“Lining Out” vs. “Regular singing”
1720 – Symmes, Mather, et al.
Singing Schools
Wm. Billings, et al.
Tunebooks – music instruction & part songs

10. Daniel Read (1757-1836) “Sherburne”
The American Singing Book (1785)
Sets text of Nahum Tate (Luke 2: 8-15)
"Sherburne" by Daniel Read ( ) [LG 3.1, p. 65]
Preference for “open” harmonies, etc.
“Fuging tune” – imitative entries
Widely disseminated into 19th & 20th Centuries

11. Reform (early 1800s) Concerns over secular sound in US churches
Reformers push for “Ancient music” [meaning…]
“Proper” (old) European tunes (and in style)
[Reform] Tunebooks using European sources - The Salem Collection…(1805) - The Middlesex Collection…(1807)
Edification [reformers] vs. Praise [congregation]
Second Great Awakening (1780s-1830s)

12. 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] (cf. Textbook ex. , p. 70, vs. Primer, screen 83)
Beginning of “Shape Notes”

13. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
“Shape Note” Singing
6/24/2018
Southern Highlands (Textbook map, p. 71)
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 titles (favored by different groups)
The Sacred Harp (1844) – multiple reprints, editions w/ varying contents
DAY 7 (4 Sep 17)

14. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
Shape Note Singing
6/24/2018
DAY 7 (4 Sep 17)

15. Shape Note Singing

16. Shape Note Singing Seated in a “hollow” square, one part to a side
Leader in center, calls tune by number
1st time sung on “fasola” syllables
Repeat w/ words (multiple verses)
Beat time w/ broad arm movements
NOT a “performance” (never “rehearsed”)
NOT a religious service (but spiritual)
“Singing Conventions”

17. Shape Note Singing Sacred Harp Georgia Part 1 [Convention]
Sacred Harp 186 Sherburne HD
186 Sherburne - Sixth Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, 2016
Sacred Harp 457 Wayfaring Stranger
Sacred Harp 159 Wondrous Love HD Stereo
Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers [Af-Am]