Tozzi, Marie Attillia2019-04-0819641964b14618035https://hdl.handle.net/2144/34741Thesis (M.M.)--Boston UniversityPLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.The purposes of this study were to (1) present a survey of social and cultural backgrounds in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the years of the nation's birth, and (2) investigate and document the attitudes toward music and the musical activities of such representative American colonial statesmen as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams.en-USAmerican historyAmerican musicMusic appreciationThesis/Dissertation1171902555581699187771920001161