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

2. (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.

3. Concert in Salem, MA (21 Jan 1809)
MUH Music in the United States
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Concert in Salem, MA (21 Jan 1809)
DAY 8 (16 Sep 19)

4. Theater Advertisement (1787)

5. London Handbill Covent Garden (entertainment district)
Play and “opera”
Cf. textbook, p. 55

6. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
Theater Music
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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)

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

8. 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

9. 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. 59]
Preference for “open” harmonies, etc.
“Fuging tune” – simple imitative entries (not a European “Bach” fugue)
Widely disseminated into 19th & 20th Centuries

10. 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)

11. 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”

12. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
“Shape Note” Singing
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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
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13. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
Shape Note Singing
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DAY 8 (16 Sep 19)

14. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
Shape Note Singing
10/7/2019
DAY 8 (16 Sep 19)