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Secular Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods - Coggle…
Secular Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods
Music in everyday experience
home music
work music
entertainment
dancing
instruments
violin
guitar
oboe
flute
virginals
fortepianos
music publishing
1780: First copyright act
servants
taught and performed
played the fiddle
chosen for their talent
theater music
Francis Hopkinson
art songs
Prestigious amateurs
Large cities had music societies
Morovian musicians first to compose music and
perform concerts
Thomas Jefferson talented musician
Considered the arts very important to society but must be practical
Ben Franklin
Thought America wasn't ready to cultivate the Arts.
Europeans were superior in the Arts
Invented the glass armonica
Early American Theater
Centers
Charleston
Williamsburg
NY city
Philidelphia
1778: banned all theater performances
foreign professionals dominated the stage in America
Early bands
Revolutionary War military bands
fife and drum corps
1792 established miltary bands with woodwinds and brass
1798: Adams establishes US Marine Band
New Orleans Bands
First Battalion of Free Men of Color
played parades and public concerts