Briefly describe the two traditions of psalm singing that had been established in America by the 1720s.

What will be an ideal response?


Regular Singing tunes sung as they were notatedwritten traditionUsual Way oral traditionlining out, used when the congregation could not read musiclining out: deacon, or leader, sang or recited each line before it was sung by the congregation (quasi-call-and-response)led to fewer number of tunes in common useled to a marked slowing of the tempo 

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