American Music Timeline
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
 | American Music Timeline Part I: Colonial Music by David Johnson |
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| 1640 | The Bay Psalm Book, Cambridge, Massachusetts, first book printed in British Colonial America, entire Book of Psalms translated into English meter; indicates dominance of religious music |
| Circa 1700 | Black slaves include songs based on Old Testament stories in their worship services; beginnings of Negro Spirituals |
| Circa 1775 | British soldiers sing "Yankee Doodle" to mock colonists; Americans adopt it as their own tune |
| Circa 1776 | "Johnny's Gone for a Soldier," adaptation of Irish folk tune, popular during American Revolutionary War |
 Next: Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" | |
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