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18th-century hymns in German (12 P) 18th-century hymns in Latin (2 P) Pages in category "18th-century hymns" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
Songs of the American Revolutionary War (7 P) B. 18th-century ballads (7 P) F. Songs of the French Revolution (7 P) H. 18th-century hymns (2 C, 37 P)
As music spread, the religious hymns were still just as popular. The first New England School , Shakers , and Quakers , which were all music and dance groups inspired by religion, rose to fame. In 1776, St. Cecilia Music Society opened in the Province of South Carolina and led to many more societies opening in the Northern United States .
"To Anacreon in Heaven" is published in England; it serves as the tune for many patriotic songs of late 18th and early 19th century, including "The Star-Spangled Banner", the national anthem of the United States. At a celebration following the victory of Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys in the fight to capture Fort Ticonderoga, a band performs ...
These oldest songs also include a few from a remote ancestor of Sacred Harp singing, the tradition of religious choral music that flourished in rural England in the mid 18th century, for example "Milford" by Joseph Stephenson (D 273). Songs by the New England composers of ca. 1770–1810, sometimes referred to as the "First New England School".
Early 1820s music trends The Boston 'Euterpiad becomes the first American periodical devoted to the parlor song. [5]The all-black African Grove theater in Manhattan begins staging with pieces by playwright William Henry Brown and Shakespeare, sometimes with additional songs and dances designed to appeal to an African American audience. [6]
The fuguing tune (often spelled fuging tune) is a variety of Anglo-American vernacular choral music. Fuguing tunes form a significant number of the songs found in the American Sacred Harp singing tradition. They first flourished in the mid-18th century and continue to be composed today.
The Moravian musical tradition in United States began with the earliest Moravian settlers in the first half of the 18th century. These Moravians were members of a well-established church – officially called Unitas Fratrum or Unity of Brethren – that by [the mid-18th century] had already seen almost three centuries of rich experience of ...