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1 Review Sheet #1 is now posted!
MUH Music in the United States 11/23/2019 Review Sheet #1 is now posted! Use these questions to guide your studying. Do not forget the supplemental reading. DAY 6 (11 Sep 19)

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

3 Secular Music in Colonies
MUH Music in the United States Secular Music in Colonies 11/23/2019 No royal patronage in colonies Chiefly amateur music-making Professional musicians in “large” cities: Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston Most professionals = Immigrants (who & why?) Most secular music “imported” from Europe DAY 6 (11 Sep 19)

4 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

5 Broadsides Topical songs printed on [cheap] “broad sheets”
No [printed] music Sung to well-known tunes [Oral] Ballad tradition British antecedents See: Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project for examples

6 “The Liberty Song” (p. 43-4)
MUH Music in the United States 11/23/2019 “The Liberty Song” (p. 43-4) Tune based on: Royal Navy - Heart of Oak Dickinson Parody: The Liberty Song (LG 2.1) Massachusetts Variant: The Massachusetts Song of Liberty British response: Come Shake Your Dull Noodles (lyrics, textbook, p. 43) DAY 6 (11 Sep 19)

7 Dance Music Problem of spiritual vs. physical (Puritans) - acceptable as means to self-discipline Non-Puritans : Social and Courting Activity Couples (European) vs. Longways Dances Anglo-Irish origins and imports Binary forms (and regular phrasing) Ex (LG. 2.2, p. 47) : Jefferson and Liberty - vocal version : Jefferson and Liberty - original version (?) : The Gobby-O Fiddle Tune Exs. (p. 46) - Jasper Bisbee - College Hornpipe - Irish Folk Song: Spanish Lady

8 Colonial Dance Examples
Couples Dances (European) - Menuett - Basic Steps for the Gavotte - Gavotte - La Bourrée 1612 Longways Dances (U.S.) - “La Bagatelle” - “Pluckemin” - Love in a Bottle (recreated from instructions printed w/ music)


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