CiteAmerican Music Timeline
 | Part I: Colonial Music |
by David Johnson
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| 1640 | 1700 | 1775 | 1776 | Next: 1800s | ||
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| 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 |
| Circa 1700 | Black slaves include songs based on Old Testament stories in their worship services; beginnings of Negro Spirituals |
| Circa 1775 | British soldiers sing "Yankee Doodle" to mock colonists; Americans adopt it as their own tune |
| Circa 1776 | "Johnny's Gone for a Soldier," adaptation of Irish folk tune, popular during American Revolutionary War |
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