American Music Timeline

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

Black slaves include songs based on Old Testament stories in their worship services; beginnings of Negro Spirituals

British soldiers sing "Yankee Doodle" to mock colonists; Americans adopt it as their own tune

"Johnny's Gone for a Soldier," adaptation of Irish folk tune, popular during American Revolutionary War