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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.
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Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in the new world
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The favored instrument to accompany dancing in the early 1700s was the fiddle
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Concert music by contemporary European composers such as Mozart and Haydn was widely appreciated by most American audiences in the 1700s
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1706-1790 Benjamin Franklin invented a musical instrument call armonica. Wich became very important in its day.
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Publics Concert began to be performed
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Musical Theater became popular
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The Great Awakening was a series of strong religious Movements
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1737-1791 Francis Hopkinson became the first secretary of the navy and one of the signers
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1746-1800 Williams Billings was the first american to produce a book of tunes all in his own composition
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Amazing Grace was Written
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General Washington issued an order requiring provide military music to American Troops
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1780-1843 Francis Scott wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
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1810-1848 Louis known by the king of the piano
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During 1850s some concert bands consisted only of brass instruments
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I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land was created by Daniel Decatur Emmett in 1859.
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William Christopher (W. C.) Handy (1873–1958), the African American bandleader and composer who called himself “father of the blues,”
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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
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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.
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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."
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Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) She was a composer and musician with a lot of talent
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Robert Johnson (1911–1938) The great country blues singer and guitar legend
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The first of the Latin rhythms to affect American pop was the Argentinean tango. it was introduced to Broadway audiences in 1911
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He was an American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music.
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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.
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Kitty Wells (b. 1919), known as the “queen of country music” through the 1950s
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The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity.
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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.
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In the 1930s, several Latin dances entered American pop through big band music, especially that of the famous bandleader Xavier Cugat.
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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.
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Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s
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He is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater
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Bebop is a style of jazz created in the early 1940
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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.
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1950 Hard Pop was created for black musicians
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Bill Monroe created Bluegrass with the holler of the blues and the improvisation of jazz
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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
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Around 1950, many composers started to accompany their films with pop music rather than the symphonic Hollywood film score.
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Rock and Roll was created and Elvis Presley and Bill Haley were the protagonists when they made it popular.
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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
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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.
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Surfing songs describing the relaxed California life also provided vicarious pleasure to young whites living in less idyllic parts of the troubled country.
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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.
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Funk began as a new expression of black consciousness, rooted in soul, often with lyrics referring specifically to interracial issues.
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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
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By the late 1970s, folk, country, and rock rhythms and instrumentation increasingly reflected vibrant Mexican traditions, including the sounds of mariachis
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It is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic
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The term new wave was loosely applied to several sounds of the mid-1980s, some of which reflected certain characteristics of earlier styles.
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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.
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Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s.Grunge gain popularity in the early 1990
