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American Music Timeline
Part I: Colonial Music
by David Johnson
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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
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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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