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American Music Timeline
Part I: Colonial Music
by David Johnson
1640
1700
1775
1776
Next: 1800s
1640
The Bay Psalm Book
, Cambridge, Massachusetts, first book printed in British Colonial America, entire Book of Psalms translated into English meter; indicates dominance of
religious music
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Circa 1700
Black slaves include songs based on Old Testament stories in their worship services; beginnings of
Negro Spirituals
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Circa 1775
British soldiers sing "Yankee Doodle" to mock colonists; Americans adopt it as their own tune
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Circa 1776
"Johnny's Gone for a Soldier," adaptation of Irish folk tune, popular during
American Revolutionary War
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Next: Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner"
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