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Native Americans in the United States had no indigenous traditions of classical music, nor a secular song tradition. Their music is spiritual in nature, performed usually in groups in a ritual setting important to Native American religion. It was not until the 1890s that Native American music began to enter the American establishment.
17th-century hymns (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "17th-century songs" ... Tis A Plaine Case Gentlemen; The Two Sisters (folk song) W.
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"Over the Hills and Far Away" (Roud 8460) is a traditional English song, dating back to at least the late 17th century. Two versions were published in the fifth volume of Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; a version that is similar to the second Wit and Mirth one appears in George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer.
Damascene composed numerous songs, many of which were published in the various musical miscellanies of the day, such as Choice Ayres and Songs, 1676–84; The Theatre of Musick, 1685–7; Vinculum Societatis, 1687–91; The Banquet of Musick, 1688–92; Comes Amoris, 1687–94; and The Gentleman's Journal, 1692–4.
Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-05717-8. Klitz, Brian (June 1989). "Blacks and Pre-Jazz Instrumental Music in America". International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. 20 (1). Croatian Musicological Society: 43– 60. doi:10.2307/836550. JSTOR 836550. Kirk, Elise Kuhl ...
The song is derived from Homer's Odyssey, interpreted through the 17th century English folk ballad tradition, and tells the story of a prospective suitor who asks a woman if she will marry him. [1] She replies that she cannot because she is betrothed to John Riley, who has gone away over the seas.
The first song to be described as a glee was Turn, Amaryllis, to thy Swain by Thomas Brewer and a few so-called glees were produced during the remainder of the 17th century but the heyday of the glee was in the years between 1750 and 1850. The form began to grow in importance with the establishment in the early 18th century of gentlemen's ...