Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819

1759

An ode by James Lyon for Princeton College's graduation and Francis Hopkinson's "My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free" are both composed; these two pieces are each cited as the first original musical composition by an American composer. Hopkinson has been called the first secular composer in the American colonies, and "My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free" is the first American secular song.

Early 1760s music trends
Music instructor James Brenner begins teaching in a coffeehouse in Philadelphia. Francis Hopkinson begins playing harpsichord in concert; he would go on to be among the most influential composers of the colonial era, and the first American composer for voice and harpsichord.

Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819 - 1759