Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819 - 1808

1808

• Congress ends the importation of new slaves.
• The age of popular parlor music begins with the first publication of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, in Dublin, London and Philadelphia. The collection popularizes parlor music to a large audience of mixed social and economic backgrounds. The collection also inspires a vogue for nostalgic, sentimental songs throughout the Anglophone world. Two of the most important songs from the collection are "The Last Rose of Summer" and "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls".
• The earliest extant full piano vocal score known to exist is from James Nelson Barker and John Bray's The Indian Princess; Or, La Belle Savauge, composed in this year.