Abstract
of talented musicians crossing the Atlantic from the old world to the new United States. Their numbers and importance demonstrate that this migration was not the whim of a few maladjusted individuals seeking to better their fortunes but a widespread movement of historical and artistic significance. The coming of such men as Gottlieb Graupner, Alexander Reinagle, George Schetky, Raynor Taylor, James Hewitt, and the Carr family appears in modern eyes as the beginning of a musical renascence in America, significant of the fact that the colonies, having concluded their struggles for economic stability and political independence, could now afford time to make music as well as to work. Not that the colonies had been barren of music before the Revolution: the psalms in the churches, the singing-schools to which this church music gave rise, the ballads which followed the colonists to the frontier and have survived to our own times in
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