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Summary In Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction H. Wiley Hitchcock takes the reader on a musical journey from the mid 1500’s, otherwise known as the Colonial period. To the early 1800’s when America was first starting to grow its roots, also known as the Federal period. The text first begins with the Protestants and there relationship with music. Being that they left England because of religious persecution on tiny colonial ships, large instruments like organs and harpsichords could not be accommodated. Also most of the colonists were not of the wealthy aristocracy that had created and gave life to music in England. Therefore the colonists in the beginning did not have the elegant and sophisticated music that the British and Western World came to have. Nevertheless, the colonists could and did enjoy only music that was quite simple and fully functio