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The Bay Psalme Book (The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre) was published in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640; it was the first book of any kind printed in the English colonies of North America. It became the standard used by New England churches for many years, though it contained no music itself, merely providing ...
Moravian sacred vocal music was used in Moravian worship in America through the early part of the 19th century. With the gradual change from German to English services however, the musicians found that it was often easier to write a new work in English that it was to translate one from German to English and make it “singable”.
[10] [11] The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA), the American music industry's advocacy organization; Dr. Dre; and Metallica independently sued Napster, who had 100,000 users after launching in 1999. [10] Metallica's lawsuit was influenced by their song "I Disappear" leaking on the site before it officially released. They asked ...
The first music of this type in America were the psalm books, such as the Ainsworth Psalter, brought over from Europe by the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1] The first music publication in English-speaking North America — indeed the first publication of any kind — was the Bay Psalm Book of 1640. [2]
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as a ritual. Religious songs have been described as a source of strength, as well as a means of easing pain ...
Richard Hageman, composer of film scores and many fine American art songs. Other 20th-century American art song composers. Sidney Homer (1864–1953), husband of Louise Homer and uncle of Samuel Barber; Jean Paul Kürsteiner (1864–1943), sacred and dramatic songs; Harry Burleigh (1866–1949), student of Dvořák, spiritual arrangements and ...
The Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts, who begin the well-documented sacred song tradition of New England.The psalmody of the Pilgrims and other early New England Protestants was "spare and plain", reflecting their Calvinist theology.
Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that originated in New England and was later perpetuated and carried on in the American South. The name is derived from The Sacred Harp , a ubiquitous and historically important tunebook printed in shape notes .