MUS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Religious Music, Party Music, Good Music
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1600s music that came to america with the pilgrims: religious music. ~ pilgrims sang acapella (no music such as instruments. ~ they used simple, repeatable melodies and they sang in their higher rang as to imitate a child"s voice (to the pilgrims a child"s voice was pure and more towards god. ) ~ base song book has 38 melodies and many different lyrics. Let"s skip back to the native americans for a moment. ~ the native americans had music way before the. All of their instruments represented something in nature. What they mostly sang was chanting or gibberish. ) Now let"s go to the 1700s- colonial america! ~the type of music they had: religious music and. Entertainment music or party music ( paper was never used on party music!) ~in the army the general had a band. The band gave the orders to the actual army (like go left, go right, halt, fire, and retreat).