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Stephen Foster Launches his Career
Stephen Foster's "Gwine to Run All Night", or "De Camptown Races", becomes a minstrel show hit, helping to launch Foster's career; he later on will become the most famous songwriter of the 19th century, and the first "full-time popular songwriter".He also composed Angelina Baker in this year. -
Row, Row, Row your Boat
The nursery ryhme we have been listening to for generations was published in 1852 by Eliphalet Oram Lyte. This song has been around since the American civil war. This makes the song over 160 years. It has been altered and has many different modern arrangements for different instrument. -
W.C Peters and Sons Releases Hymns
W.C. Peters and Son, a music publishing company, releases a collection of hymns that is the first such collection published in the American Midwest. -
American Civil War
The American civil war inspired the publishing of many songs from both patriot African American and locals. The Battle of First Manassas was one of the many songs that was published during this time along with the Battle of Wilson's Creek and the Battle of Belmont. This led to the making of Brass instruments. -
Milestone for African Americans
Slave Songs of the United States is the first, and most influential, collection of spirituals to be published; the collectors were Northern abolitionists (the movement to end slavery), William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison and Charles Pickard Ware. It is also the first published collection of African American music of any kind. -
Apollo Club
After the Oratorio Society of Chicago is destroyed by a fire, Boston's Handel and Haydn Society sends materials to rebuild the organization, which is then built as the Apollo Club, which then became one of themost famous clubs in the United States. -
Dakota Drum Dance
The Dakota Drum Dance is introduced to the Native Americans of the Great Lakes region; this is a set of beliefs that were made around a legndary women named Turkey Tailfeather Woman. She was said to have escaped from the American military and was instructed to build and use a large drum. This drum has then become an important peice for the religion that is made based on the drum. It is also used in important ceromonies for these natives. -
The Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera opens in New York City. It was founded by a group of wealthy industrialists and important families. It is also the first Metropolitan Opera in New york city and is still around today.
