Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819 - 1792

1792

• Congress passes a law requiring all able-bodied white males to join a state militia; the result helps spur the development of military bands, as opposed to fife-and-drum corps, which Congress authorizes for the first time the same year. The Militia Act standardized the instrumentation of military bands.
• Thomas Wignell forms a theatrical company in Philadelphia, with Alexander Reinagle as his music director.