Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819

1767

Andrew Barton's The Disappointment; Or, the Force of Credulity is the first American ballad opera, and the first opera with a plot based in the United States. Its libretto is the first of its kind (comic opera) written and published in the country. It is not, however, performed until the 20th century. The scheduled debut in Philadelphia is cancelled because the opera "contained personal Reflections (and) is unfit for the stage", according to the Pennsylvania Gazette.
The first reference to an African American dance comes from a description of a performance by Mr. Tea in a stage show documented in the New York Journal.
The first American patriotic song, known as "Liberty Song", advertised in the Boston Chronicle, with words by Mercy Otis Warren.
The first detailed account of an American military band concert comes the Royal American Regiment (Sixtieth Foot) in New York.

Late 1760s music trends
British patriotic songs begin to be changed into anti-British protests circulated through newspapers and broadsides. Itinerant music instructor John Stadler travels across Virginia, teaching music to families like the wealthy Carters and the Washingtons

Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819 - 1767