Transcript MUL 2010 “Enjoyment of Music

Chapter One
“Nature Must Inspire the Thought” :
Sacred Music in the European Colonies
(last day)
William Billlings (1746-1800)
• Singing School Master, Composer, etc.
• The New-England Psalm-Singer, or American
Chorister (Boston, 1770) [Textbook, p. 35]
- 1st collection of entirely American works
- theory, instructions, and music
• “Nature is the best Dictator, for all the hard dry
studied Rules that ever was prescribed will not
enable any Person to form an Air…without a
Genius…Nature must inspire the Thought.”
Chester
(1770)
Chester by William
Billings
[verses 1 & 5]
American Revolutionary
Song:Chester - William
Billings [all 5 verses]
(also see LG 1.4)
James Lyon – Urania (1761)
• 1st American tunebook of any kind
(mixes original and British compositions)
• Princeton educated, European influences
• The Lord descended (1761), by James Lyon (1735--1794)
• James Lyon - Urania : Christmas
Other Groups
• Anglican
- Church of England (in America)
• Ephrata Cloisters (p. 39-40)
- German-speaking separatists (PA)
- Ephrata Cloister Chorus
• Moravians (p. 40-41)
- Bethlehem, Nazareth (PA), Salem (NC)
- collegium musicum
- Johann Friedrich Peter - Quintet IV in C major (1789)
- Gott ist mein Hort (Arr. N.R. Knouse for Male Choir) (Live)
Review Sheet #1 is now posted!
Use these questions to guide your studying.
Do not forget the supplemental reading.
Chapter Two
“Old, Simple Ditties” : Secular Music in
the Colonies and Early Republic
Secular Music in Colonies
• 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
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
“Liberty
Song”
p. 46-7
• Tune based on: Royal
Navy - Heart of Oak
• Dickinson Parody: The
Liberty Song
• Massachusetts Variant:
The Massachusetts Song
of Liberty
• British response: Come
Shake Your Dull Noodles
• ******
• Revolutionary War ex.
“Irishman's Epistle…”: