Puritan Americans Influence

In 1620 the Pilgrims arrived in New England with the intention of forming a new colony free from corruption in Plymouth after receiving religious persecution from England. These Protestants did not agree with England's perspective on Christianity, which they found too Catholic and separated from them. Later in 1630 the Puritans arrived in Boston and established Massachusetts Bay Colony, however instead of breaking from the Church, they reformed under Calvinist orthodoxy. Governor John Winthrop ensured his citizens to follow his lead [God's obligations] or else be punished for blasphemy. They utilized the bible and sang psalms and hymns a cappella by having deacons "lining out" the psalms when most people couldn’t read and as part of their worship
“Indians used song as a means of accomplishing definite results.”3 For example, they would sing in marriages, war, healing, and birth. They would also sing and/or play songs, such as game songs to bring players good luck when gambling in games. Although, they didn’t have much of an impact on colonial America other than Amerindian communities, because the European Americans didn’t treat them as equals, these traditions helped Native Americans connect to their heritage as a tribe's history is told by music and kept oral narratives alive. These vary from tribe to tribe and are important to their identity. Although, cannot be confirmed other than assumption and archaeological evidence, the earliest affirmation of Native American music came along with the arrival of European explorers. Musical instruments and pictographs portraying music and dance date far back to the 7th century. Instruments such as drums, flutes, and other percussions were used, however the most notable aspect in their music is by voice. Everyone would gather in large group and sing in unison, making the music haunting and powerful, yet effective. Tribes have collaborated with other communities' traditions and created
Many of these were from England or Ireland in the form of ballads or jigs However, colonial American music was not just made by Puritans or the Native Americans, but also made by African-American slaves who brought their culture from Africa and helped developed music of colonial America. They were brought by the Europeans to make up for the losses of majority of Native Americans needed to labor for the Puritans since 1621 and for trade. They would have work songs while working for the White Americans, worshipped, and sang psalms and hymns after being introduced by their Anglican owners. In 1720, African Americans would adapt Old testament stories into their worship in church as songs During the Revolutionary War, many songs that were used in public rallies as propaganda to inspire patriotism, spread across the nation and are taken in as American classics. These were also used in the battlefield with the fife (a small, high-pitched flute used with the drum in military bands) and drum, as music from both instruments raised troop's morale and calls to order them around the