Review Sheet 1 is now posted Use these

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

Primary Source Summary Project • Instructions Now Posted on course website • Must be in groups by 24 Jan 20 • Paper due on Monday, 10 Feb 20 @ 5: 00 pm

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

(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.

Concert in Salem, MA (21 Jan 1809)

Theater Advertisement (1787)

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

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, or the Maid of Milan (1823) - “Home, Sweet Home” (John Howard Payne, lyrics) "Home, Sweet Home"

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

Reminders • Psalmody – Puritan sacred music • “Lining Out” vs. “Regular singing” • 1720 s – Symmes, Mather, et al. (“Ancient Music” = older, European) • Singing Schools • Wm. Billings, et al. • Tunebooks – music instruction & part songs

Daniel Read (1757 -1836) “Sherburne” • The American Singing Book (1785) • Sets text of Nahum Tate (Luke 2: 8 -15) • "Sherburne" by Daniel Read (1757 -1836) [LG 3. 1, p. 59] • Preference for “open” harmonies, etc. • “Fuging tune” – simple imitative entries (not a European “Bach” fugue) • Widely disseminated into 19 th & 20 th Centuries

Reform (early 1800 s) • 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 (1780 s-1830 s) - Camp Meetings (and singing)