Moravian Music Education in America, ca. 1750 to ca. 1830

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry H. Hall
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Music Education ◽  
American Education ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
Strong Commitment

The Moravians, descendants of the pre-Reformation Unitas Fratrum, were among many religious and ethnic immigrants to this country during the eighteenth century. Their frontier settlements in Pennsylvania and North Carolina soon became well-springs of educational and musical activity. A strong commitment to education resulted in the establishing of first-rate schools. An almost consuming love of music-sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental–led to achievements without peer in colonial times. It is not at all surprising, then, that they brought music and education together in optimum union. Music was regarded for its aesthetic as well as practical value, and music experiences were provided at all levels of instruction and enjoyed solid curricular status–something quite unique in American education at the time.

Catawba

Fit for War ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Elizabeth Fitts
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Charles Town ◽  
The Core ◽  
The North

Chapter 3 documents the emergence, composition, and political interactions of the Catawba Nation through the mid-eighteenth century. Between the Spanish incursions of the 1560s and the establishment of Charles Town in 1670, a group of Catawba Valley Mississippians known as Yssa rose to become the powerful Nation of Esaws that formed the core of the eighteenth-century Catawba Nation. In the late seventeenth century this polity was a destination for European traders as well as American Indian refugees fleeing hostilities associated with the Indian Slave trade and settler territorial expansion. While many of these refugees were from the Catawba River Valley, others—most notably the Charraw—were Piedmont Siouans who fled southward from the North Carolina-Virginia border. The incorporation of refugees had significant implications for Catawba politics and daily life, which are explored in subsequent chapters.

scholarly journals Eighteenth Century North Carolina Imprints, 1749-1800.

1940 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Lester J. Cappon ◽  
Douglas C. McMurtrie
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Eighteenth Century
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