New England Conservatory of Music in Boston

Massachusetts is a U.S. state in New England. Perhaps the most influential early composer of the United States was Lowell Mason. A native of Boston, Mason campaigned against the use of shape-note notation, and for the education in standard notation. He worked with local institutions to release collections of hymns and maintain his stature. Opposed to the shape-note tradition, Mason pushed American music towards a European model. Image File history File links NewEnglandConservatoryofMusic. ... Image File history File links NewEnglandConservatoryofMusic. ... The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest independent conservatory in the United States. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties Libertarian Party State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Portrait of Lowell Mason Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was a leading figure in American church music, the composer of over 1600 hymns, many of which are often sung today. ... Shape notes are a system of music notation designed to facilitate congregational singing. ...

The Bay Psalme Book (The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre) was published in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640; it was the first book of any kind printed in the English colonies of North America. It became the standard used by New England churches for many years, though it contained no music itself, merely providing psalms and pointing readers to other prominent publications. The Bay Psalm Book was faithful to its source, but did not produce beautiful singing. In 1651, then, a third edition was created, and became known as the New England Psalm Book; this became the standard for many years. By this point, the evolution from the Ainsworth Psalter to the New England Psalm Book had steadily dwindled the number of tunes in use. The Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in British North America. ...   Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 02138, 02139, 02140, 02141, 02142 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ... Events December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. ... // Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ...

Massachusetts was later home to a number of the most prominent members of the First New England School of itinerant singing masters, including Daniel Read (later of New Haven, Connecticut) and Supply Belcher (later of Farmington, Maine). Daniel Read (November 16, 1757 – December 4, 1836) was an American composer of the First New England School, and one of the primary figures in early American classical music. ... Nickname: The Elm City Location in Connecticut Coordinates: NECTA New Haven Region South Central Region Settled 1638 Incorporated (city) 1784 Consolidated 1895 Government  - Type Mayor-board of aldermen  - Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. ... Supply Belcher (March 29, 1751 – June 9, 1836) was an American composer, singer, and compiler of tune books. ... Farmington is a town located in Franklin County, Maine. ...

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Concert music

Massachusetts has been home to formal ensembles: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, Tanglewood Festival Chorus. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of the worlds most renowned orchestras. ... The Boston Pops Orchestra was founded in 1885 as a subsection of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. ... Boston Lyric Opera New England (BLO) is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Tanglewood Festival Chorus is a choir which performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops in major choral works. ...

It has had formal institutions for the perpetuation of formal music: Boston Conservatory, Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, and Berklee College of Music. The Boston Conservatory is an arts conservatory located in the Back Bay region of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. ... The Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest independent conservatory in the United States. ... Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ...

Folk music

There are seasonal folk music festivals in the state. “Folk song” redirects here. ...

1960s

There was a considerable amount of rock and roll musical activity in Boston in the 1960s. In the early part of the decade, Boston produced acts like Freddie Cannon and The Rockin' Ramrods. In the middle of the decade garage rock acts like Barry & the Remains and The Barbarians came out of Boston. The psychedelic era saw a promotional hype for the Bosstown Sound, but most of the bands thus promoted were closer to bubblegum than psychedelia. Orpheus achieved some nationwide recognition, while the Beacon Street Union was known primarily locally. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that enjoyed its original period of wide success in the United States and Canada, from 1963 to 1967. ... The Barbarians were a moderately successful garage band of the 1960s with a few nationally charted hits. ... The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ... Bubblegum pop, also known as bubblegum rock, bubblegum music, youth music, or simply bubblegum, is a genre of popular music. ... Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ... Orpheus was a Boston-based rock band that enjoyed brief popularity in the 1960’s. ... The Beacon Street Union was a 1960s psychedelic era rock band, named for a street in their native Boston, whose original members were John Lincoln Wright (vocals, percussion), Paul Tartachny (guitar, vocals), Wayne Ulaky (bass, vocals), Robert Rhodes (keyboards, bass), and Richard Weisburg (drums). ...

1970s

Jonathan Richman

The J. Geils Band and The Modern Lovers, featuring Jonathan Richman as well as (for a short time) Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads, came out of Boston, as did more mainstream acts like Aerosmith, The Cars and Boston. Download high resolution version (635x950, 86 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Jonathan Richman File links The following pages link to this file: Jonathan Richman Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (635x950, 86 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Jonathan Richman File links The following pages link to this file: Jonathan Richman Categories: GFDL images ... Jonathan Richman (born May 16, 1951), musician, is an American proto-punk icon and one of the progenitors of indie rock. ... The J. Geils Band was a very popular rock and roll band, playing to large arena crowds in the United States in the 1970s before moving towards a more pop-influenced sound in the 1980s. ... Led by Jonathan Richman, the protopunk band The Modern Lovers came out of Massachusetts in the early 1970s. ... Jonathan Richman (born May 16, 1951), musician, is an American proto-punk icon and one of the progenitors of indie rock. ... Jerry Harrison (born February 21, 1949) was the keyboardist and guitarist for the influential New Wave group Talking Heads. ... Talking Heads was an American rock band existing between 1974 and 1991, composed of David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison. ... Aerosmith is a prominent American rock band, regarded by some as Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. [1][2] Although they are known as the bad boys from Boston, none of the bands members are actually from that city. ... The Cars were an American New Wave band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged from the early punk scene in the late 1970s. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Pixies

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Alternative rock

The earliest alternative rock bands in Massachusetts hailed from Boston and included Salem 66, Volcano Suns and Mission of Burma. Later bands from Eastern Massachusetts included Pixies, Throwing Muses, Morphine, Galaxie 500, Swirlies and the Pernice Brothers. Farther west, in Amherst, the dissolution of the legendary hardcore punk band Deep Wound spurred the foundation of future legends Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr from its ashes. Amherst and neighboring Northampton also spawned the Scud Mountain Boys, Buffalo Tom, and Cordelia's Dad, the latter uniquely fusing Appalachian folk music with hardcore punk rock.
Other notable bands/musicians: Dropkick Murphys; Godsmack; Staind; Dresden Dolls; Guster; Extreme; Dick Dale; Bobby Brown; The Mighty Mighty Bosstones; New Kids on the Block; Rob Zombie; New Edition; Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... Salem 66 was an indie group formed in 1982 by Judy Grunwald, Elisabeth Kaplan and Susan Merriam. ... Volcano Suns was an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. ... Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer. ... The Pixies[1] are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. ... An early band formation (left to right): Narcizo, Hersh, Donelly, and Langston. ... Morphine was an alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1989. ... Album cover for On Fire Galaxie 500 was a seminal slowcore guitar band from the late 1980s. ... Swirlies are a band from Boston that formed in 1990. ... Pernice Brothers are an indie rock band. ...   Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. ... Hardcore punk (usually referred to simply as hardcore/hXc) is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in the United States of America in the late 1970s. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Sebadoh are an indie rock band formed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Eric Gaffney, WOZQ DJ and Pizza Factory driver (circa 1989) and former Dinosaur Jr. ... Dinosaur Jr are an American alternative rock band. ... Nickname: Noho, Hamp Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Hampshire County Settled 1654 Incorporated 1656 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Mary Clare Higgins Area  - City  35. ... Scud Mountain Boys was an American alt-country band. ... Buffalo Tom Buffalo Tom is an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in the 1980s. ... Cordelias Dad is a band from in Northampton, Massachusetts that combines folk and punk rock influences and was instrumental in the creation of the genre later to be dubbed No Depression. The band formed in 1987 and was active until 1998, when the members relocated to different parts of... West Virginia fiddler Edwin Edden Hammons, with unidentified banjo player Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots in the folk music of many countries, most notably: England, Scotland, Ireland, and the African continent. ... Dropkick Murphys are a celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.[1] First playing together in the basement of a friends barbershop, they blended Oi!, Irish music, and hardcore. ... Godsmack is a band formed in 1996 from Massachusetts. ... Staind is an American alternative metal group[1][2] from Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. ... The Dresden Dolls are a two-piece band from Boston that formed mid-2000, made up of singer/pianist Amanda Palmer and drummer (and occasional guitarist) Brian Viglione. ... Guster is an alternative rock band (sometimes classified as jangle pop), originally formed in the Boston, Massachusetts area by members Ryan Miller (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards), Adam Gardner (guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards), and Brian Rosenworcel (drums/percussion). ... See also Extreme value, Extreme sports, Extremophile Extreme was an American funk metal / hair metal / hard rock band which achieved popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... This article is about the surf guitarist. ... Robert Beresford Bobby Brown (born February 5, 1969 in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is an American Grammy-winning R&B singer and dancer. ... The Mighty Mighty Bosstones were a ska-core band from Boston, Massachusetts. ... New Kids on the Block (later NKOTB) was a successful boy band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Robert Bartleh Cummings (born January 12, 1965[1]), better known as Rob Zombie, is an American heavy metal and industrial rock musician, director, and writer. ... New Edition is an American R&B group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1980, that was most popular during the 1980s. ...

Hardcore

Main article: Boston hardcore Boston Hardcore is the influential hardcore punk scene of Boston, Massachusetts. ...

As the hardcore underground hit Boston, a few New Wave bands like Pastische, Lou Miami and the Cosmetics, Human Sexual Response, DMZ- who were to Boston what the New York Dolls were to New York City, and who evolved into garage rock revivalists The Lyres; The Real Kids,The Neighborhoods, The Turbines, and The Neats played any form of punk. The founder of the Boston Hardcorde scene was Allan Barile from Lynn, Massachusetts. Barile saw Minor Threat in Washington DC and brought hardcore home with him, intensifying DC's skinhead and straight edge subcultures. Hardcore punk (usually referred to simply as hardcore/hXc) is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in the United States of America in the late 1970s. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ... The New York Dolls are a rock band formed in New York City in 1972. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that enjoyed its original period of wide success in the United States and Canada, from 1963 to 1967. ... The Lyres are a Boston-area alternative rock musical group led by Jeff Mono Man Connolly and founded in 1979. ... Al Barile was the guitar player for the early 1980s Boston hardcore punk band SSD. He also ran X-Claim Records, which put out several important early Boston LPs from bands like DYS and Jerrys Kids. ... Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Essex County Settled 1629 Incorporated 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Chip Clancy Area  - City  13. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Flag Seal Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... Skinheads, named after their cropped or shaven heads, are members of a working class subculture that originated in Britain in the 1960s, where they were heavily influenced by the rude boys of the West Indies and the mods of the UK. In subsequent decades, the skinhead subculture spread to other... For the drawing or cutting tool, see Straightedge. ...

Barile's first band was SSD (Society System Decontrol). It formed in 1981 and recorded the following year. SSD organized their own shows, not playing at typical venues, such as punk rock mainstay The Rat, because those clubs served alcohol. They rented out K of C's in areas such as Cambridge and Newton, and insisted that the performances be "all ages shows". Violence was common at these concerts and many people felt they made the punk scene violent. Mostly this was felt by older punks on the scene and casual fans. Other bands soon joined. In contrast to Barile's SSD, many of these bands were from suburbs of Boston including best known Gang Green, heralding from Braintree, DYS, The FU's, Jerry's Kids and Last Rights; Stranglehold, and The Proleteriat from Fall River. SSD (Society-System Decontrol) was a Boston hardcore band. ... For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Braintree, please see the article Braintree (CDP), Massachusetts. ... DYS was a straight edge hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, and part of the notorious Boston Crew along with contemporaries such as SSD and Negative FX. They released two LPs: Brotherhood, an album still held in high regard by fans of hardcore music, and DYS (i. ... The FUs were an early-mid 80s Boston Hardcore punk band consisting of John Sox Stocking, Steve Grimes, Bob Furapples, and Wayne Maestri. ... One of the earliest Boston hardcore bands, Jerrys Kids had their first recorded output on the Modern Method compilation LP in 1982, on which they contributed 6 tracks, most of which were around the 30 second mark in length. ... Last Rights is an album released in 1992 by Canadian electronic group Skinny Puppy. ... Fall River is the name of various cities: Fall River, Kansas Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River, Tennessee Fall River, Wisconsin Fall River, Nova Scotia, Canada It is also the name of: the Fall River in Ontario, Canada the Fall River in Shasta County, California There is also the county of...

Barile's Crew was known for being for the first major group of skin heads in the city of Boston. One of the most notorious of these straight edgers was Choke, who was actually attending Emerson College at the time. Choke played in a series of legendary bands including Negative FX, Slapshot and Last Rights. The Boston crew were a tight group of skinheads who were intensely loyal to one another and very territorial. Look up Choke in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Emerson College was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a school of oratory, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Negative FX was a hardcore band from Boston formed in 1982. ... High energy band of the straight edge movement. ... Last Rights is an album released in 1992 by Canadian electronic group Skinny Puppy. ...

Boston developed an active hardcore zine culture by 1980, most influentially including Forced Exposure. A zine—an abbreviation of the word fanzine, and originating from the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Forced Exposure was an independent music magazine (zine) published sporadically out of Massachusetts in the mid-to-late 1980s, edited and produced by Byron Coley and Jimmy Johnson. ...

Unlike most hardcore bands, Boston's scene included heavy metal fans. Barile himself was a fan of AC/DC, while DYS, SSD and Gang Green all eventually made the switch to speed metal. Heavy metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed between 1968 and 1974. ... This article is about the band. ... Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that spawned in the mid-late 1970s and was the direct musical progenitor of thrash metal[1] [2]. When Speed metal first emerged as a genre, it innovatively increased the tempo of the music template set forth by Black Sabbath, Led...

The death of hardcore in Boston is said to have occurred in 1984, when Jerry's Kids announced at a show that "this is the end of hardcore. We started it and we're ending it here today". 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

However, members of Boston's current scene in bands such as Mental, Righteous Jams and Bane are still trying to resurrect it. Mental was a hardcore band that formed in Boston, Massachusetts during a slow period in Boston hardcore. ... This Boston area straight edge Hardcore band was started by Joey Cardona and Jesse Standhard in 2002, the band was originally named Invasion. ... Bane, a hardcore punk band, began as a side project between Aaron Dalbec (then of Converge) and Damon Bellardo. ...

Western Massachusetts

More laid-back and less violent than the Boston scene, western Massachusetts had several notable hardcore bands, including Deep Wound, All White Jury, Brain Injured Unit, Cancerous Growth, Siege, Pajama Slave Dancers and The Outpatients. Of these, Deep Wound was the most important, spawning pioneering alternative rock groups like Dinosaur Jr. and, later, Sebadoh after the breakup of Deep Wound. Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Siege at their high schools Battle of the Bands in 1984. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... Dinosaur Jr is an American indie rock band. ... Sebadoh are an indie rock band formed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Eric Gaffney, WOZQ DJ and Pizza Factory driver (circa 1989) and former Dinosaur Jr. ...

In the late 1990s several bands in western Massachusetts (centered around the five colleges in Northampton/Amherst) help establish an indie rock scene. This included such bands as the Warren Commission, New Jersey Fairplan, Waterpistol, Psara, Delvic, The Right and Noah's Dove. Both Waterpistol and Psara appear on Deep Elm Record's The Emo Diaries Compilation. The Warren Commission released several albums on the Boston label Espo Records. This was followed by a second wave of western Mass. emo/indie rock bands including I Am Disaster, Saveyourself, and the El to Addison. Many of these bands moved to the Boston area, where they have found some success or have broken up and formed new bands.

Western Massachusetts has also been the birthplace of metal bands like Stained, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage and All That Remains. Staind is an American alternative metal group[1][2] from Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. ... Shadows Fall is a five-piece Progressive Metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts. ... Killswitch Engage (a. ... For the Fozzy album, see All That Remains (album). ...

Stockbridge, Massachusetts was also the setting for the infamous American folk song Alice's Restaurant. Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. ... The former church where Alice and Ray lived and where the story begins; the restaurant itself is roughly six miles north in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. ...

Quirky/Eclectic Music

Western Mass. has played and stills is the home of bands that would rather not write love songs, but songs called Defreeze Walt Disney, Problems With Sects, Spider Goo, and Don Knotts (Is Mick Jagger's Dad). Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show (a role which earned him five Emmy Awards), and as landlord Ralph Furley on the television sitcom Threes... Sir Michael Phillip Mick Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. ...

The aforementioned Pajama Slave Dancers (PSD) with their punky sensibilities spawned Captain Testosterone and the Gypsy Stretch Mark Orchestra led by Steve Westfield. Other PSD offshoots were Chubacabra Jr., and the The Uncomfortables. The Rock Gods from Chicopee had a hilarious show pretending they were big rock stars, while the Donut Kings lyrics played the funny versus the silly. The Donut Kings won the 2000 Valley Advocate Grand Band Slam for best Alternative/ Eclectic band. Another Grand Band Slam winner that year (for cover band) was Krazee Navel . The thing is they were not a cover band. Slant 6 and the Jumpstarts make automotive rock fun and entertaining. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The Valley Advocate is an alternative weekly newspaper serving the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. ...

References

• Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Los Angeles, CA: Feral House. ISBN 0-92291-571-7.

External links

• CT/MA Music - Western Massachusetts Music News