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Preface
Chronology of Figures and Events
Introduction
Prelude: Basic Properties of Musical Sound
The Elements of Music Rhythm Meter Melody Harmony Timbre Form Music Notation Elements of an American Sound How to Improve Your Listening Skills
Listening Example 1 "Love Me Tender" Terms to Review Suggestions for Further Listening Critical Thinking George R. Poulton
Part 1 Music in Early North America
The Early Years: Historical and Cultural Perspective
The Beginnings of Music in America Native Americans European Emigrants Puritan Society
The African Experience in Early America Revolution, in Classical Style Painting in Eighteenth-Century America
Chapter 1 North American Indian Music Songs Texts
Listening Example 2 Yeibichai Chant Song (excerpt) Sioux Grass Dance Sound Instruments
Listening Example 3 Sioux Grass Dance (excerpt) Contemporary Indian Song Professional Musicians Terms to Review Key Figures Suggestions for Further Listening Suggestions for Viewing Critical Thinking
Chapter 2 Folk Music *Spanish Traditions
Listening Example 4 Anonymous, El cutillo Alabados British Traditions Folk Ballads Early American Folk Music
Listening Example 5 Anonymous, "Barbara Allen" *African Traditions
Listening Example 6 Anonymous, "Shenandoah" Field Hollers
Listening Example 7 Field Holler
Listening Example 8 Father's Field Call Ring Shouts
Listening Example 9 Complaint Call Work Songs
Listening Example 10 Anonymous, "Hammer, Ring" (excerpt) Musical Instruments What of African Music Survives Today? Terms to Review Suggestions for Further Listening Critical Thinking
Chapter 3 Religious Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods Music at the Spanish Mission Psalm Tunes Psalters
Listening Example 11 Louis Bourgeois, "Old Hundred" Other Protestant Music German-Speaking Protestant Sects
Listening Example 12 "Surely He Has Borne Our Griefs" John Antes
The Great Awakening Early Efforts at Musical Reform The Singing School Movement William Billings
Listening Example 13 "Chester" Canons Fuging Tunes William Billings
Listening Example 14 "When Jesus Wept" William Billings
Listening Example 15 "Sherburne" Daniel Read
Terms to Review Key Figures Optional Listening Example Suggestions for Further Listening Critical Thinking
Chapter 4 Secular Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods Music in Everyday Experience Prestigious Musical Amateurs Professional Composers
Listening Example 16 Sonata in E for the Piano Forte, third movement. Early Bands Alexander Reinagle
Listening Example 17 Anonymous, "Yankee Doodle" (excerpt) Terms to Review Key Figures Optional Listening Example Suggestions for Further Listening Critical Thinking
Part 1 Summary
Part 2 The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century Romanticism in America: Historical and Cultural Perspective The Emergence of Characteristically American Art Fusion of the Arts The Civil War Era Music
Chapter 5 Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century The Great Revival Shape-Note Notation Spiritual Songs "Amazing Grace" Black Spirituals
Listening Example 18 Carter Family, "There'll be Joy, Joy, Joy" (excerpt)
Listening Example 19 Anonymous, "Amazing Grace" Listening Example