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It was not until the 1890s that Native American music began to enter the American establishment. At the time, the first pan-tribal cultural elements, such as powwows, were being established, and composers like Edward MacDowell and Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert used Native themes in their compositions.
Most songs of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods originated in England, Scotland and Ireland and were brought over by early settlers. According to ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, American folk music is notable because it "At its roots is an English folk song tradition that has been modified to suit the specific requirements of America."
Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage, 2012) Warren M. Billings (Editor), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005)
Barbara Allen (song) Barnacle Bill the Sailor; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit; William Bernard (sailor) The Big Rock Candy Mountains; Billy Boy; Birch (song) Birmingham Jail; Birmingham Sunday; Black and White (Pete Seeger song) Black Betty; Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair; Blind (SZA song) The Blinding ...
His most famous song is "My Days Have been so Wondrous Free", and his Seven Songs for the Harpsichord were composed in 1788 and dedicated to George Washington. Other 18th-century American song composers. Peter Von Hagen (1750–1803), Dutch born; Alexander Reinagle (1756–1809) Benjamin Carr (1768–1831), English born
A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...
Hutchinson Family, 1845. The Hutchinson Family Singers were an American family singing group who became the most popular American entertainers of the 1840s. The group sang in four-part harmony a repertoire of political, social, comic, sentimental and dramatic works, and are considered by many to be the first uniquely American popular music performers.
The colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia , and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies .