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Opera
An opera is a drama that is sung instead of spoken. Like a play, it may be long or short, comic or serious, grand or modest—good or bad. -
Bay Psalm Book
Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in the new world -
Fiddle
The favored instrument to accompany dancing in the early 1700s was the fiddle -
Americans in the 1700
Concert music by contemporary European composers such as Mozart and Haydn was widely appreciated by most American audiences in the 1700s -
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790 Benjamin Franklin invented a musical instrument call armonica. Wich became very important in its day. -
Public Concerts
Publics Concert began to be performed -
Musical Theater
Musical Theater became popular -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a series of strong religious Movements -
Francis Hopkinson
1737-1791 Francis Hopkinson became the first secretary of the navy and one of the signers -
Williams Billings
1746-1800 Williams Billings was the first american to produce a book of tunes all in his own composition -
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace was Written -
American Troops
General Washington issued an order requiring provide military music to American Troops -
The Star-Spangled Banner
1780-1843 Francis Scott wrote The Star-Spangled Banner -
Louis Moreau
1810-1848 Louis known by the king of the piano -
Brass Instruments
During 1850s some concert bands consisted only of brass instruments -
I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land
I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land was created by Daniel Decatur Emmett in 1859. -
Father of the Blues
William Christopher (W. C.) Handy (1873–1958), the African American bandleader and composer who called himself “father of the blues,” -
Charles Ives 1874-1954
He was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years -
William Grant Still 1895-1978
He was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas.Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. -
Aaron Compland 1900-1990
Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Composers." -
Women in Jazz
Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) She was a composer and musician with a lot of talent -
Blues
Robert Johnson (1911–1938) The great country blues singer and guitar legend -
Argentinean Tango
The first of the Latin rhythms to affect American pop was the Argentinean tango. it was introduced to Broadway audiences in 1911 -
John Cage 1912-1992
He was an American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music. -
Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990
He was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. -
Women in Coutry
Kitty Wells (b. 1919), known as the “queen of country music” through the 1950s -
Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity. -
Chuck Berry
The most talented early black stars of rock and roll, fused with rhythm and blues more country-western elements than had other outstanding black musicians of the mid-1950s. -
Latin Dances introduced in America
In the 1930s, several Latin dances entered American pop through big band music, especially that of the famous bandleader Xavier Cugat. -
The Hawaiian Steel Guitar
By the end of the 1930s, the Hawaiian steel guitar—electrified or acoustic— was well established in southwestern country bands and was becoming a part of southeastern country music as well. -
Swing Era
Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s -
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
He is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater -
Bebop
Bebop is a style of jazz created in the early 1940 -
Samba and Bossa Nova
Samba and Bossa Nova The Afro-Brazilian samba, sometimes called the national dance of Brazil, arrived in New York around 1949 and quickly became popular as sung and danced by the glamorous Carmen Miranda. -
Hard Pop
1950 Hard Pop was created for black musicians -
Bluegrass
Bill Monroe created Bluegrass with the holler of the blues and the improvisation of jazz -
Urban Folk Revival
The urban folk revival evolved into a very popular movement, attracting huge crowds of mostly young, often socially conscious, and sometimes politically active young people. 1950-1960 -
Pop Scores
Around 1950, many composers started to accompany their films with pop music rather than the symphonic Hollywood film score. -
Birth of Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll was created and Elvis Presley and Bill Haley were the protagonists when they made it popular. -
The RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer
It was the first programmable electronic synthesizer and the flagship piece of equipment at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Designed by Herbert Belar and Harry Olson at RCA -
Motown Music
It is a company created for the purpose of marketing black rock and roll as aggressively and as lucratively as the products of white musicians. -
Surfing Muisc
Surfing songs describing the relaxed California life also provided vicarious pleasure to young whites living in less idyllic parts of the troubled country. -
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band. -
Funk Music
Funk began as a new expression of black consciousness, rooted in soul, often with lyrics referring specifically to interracial issues. -
Disco Muisc
Disco music is a genre that developed in nightclubs in the 1960s and 1970s. It's made up of parts of different musical traditions, including soul, funk, Motown and even salsa and meringue -
Mariachi
By the late 1970s, folk, country, and rock rhythms and instrumentation increasingly reflected vibrant Mexican traditions, including the sounds of mariachis -
Hip-Hop
It is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic -
New Wave
The term new wave was loosely applied to several sounds of the mid-1980s, some of which reflected certain characteristics of earlier styles. -
Electronic Dance Music
Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. -
Grunge
Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s.Grunge gain popularity in the early 1990
