MUS 1751 Chapter : MUS 1751 Unit 4
Document Summary
33 american popular music to world war ii: pilgrims brought with them simple religious music found in a psalter (book of pslams) Neither wanted nor had musical instruments, trained single, or professional choir. Within 20 years of their arrival, the bay psalm book (1640) was printed: only a few lines were needed because one tune could be used for an entire group of psalms. Lining out: a leader would sing each line of a psalm and the full congregation would immediately repeat that line: musical notation began to appear in new editions of the bay song book. Stepped in the anglo-irish tradition of singing improvised harmony against a given tone. By the mid-18th century, fuging tunes appeared: singing the pslams a short canon or round. Windsor: includes examples of lining and improvised 4 part harmony and fuging: folk music and country music, folk music: usually remembered by ear, not written down, country music.
