Anticipation Guide. At the end of the lesson, mark the correct answers in the After the lesson column. Taverns. True False True False

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1 Anticipation Guide Before we start our lesson, read each of the following sentences and decide whether it is true or false. Mark your answers in the Before the lesson column. At the end of the lesson, mark the correct answers in the After the lesson column. Before the After the Taverns lesson lesson True False True False 1. During the colonial period, taverns were places where people could pay to stay the night. 2. Songs sung in colonial taverns often had varying versions of lyrics. 3. The tavern songs were all set to original tunes written by American colonists. 4. Taverns during the colonial period were similar to what a restaurant is today. 5. Performers were always employees of the tavern owners. 6. Only adult males provided the music in colonial taverns. 7. Some songs had political themes. 8. People visited taverns to eat and drink. 9. The music for the Star Spangled Banner was originally used for a patriotic English tavern song. 10. The violin was the only instrument used to accompany tavern music.

2 Anticipation Guide Answer Key Before the After the Taverns lesson lesson True False True False 1. During the colonial period, taverns were places where people could pay to stay the night. 2. Songs sung in colonial taverns often had varying versions of lyrics. 3. The tavern songs were all set to original tunes written by American colonists. 4. Taverns during the colonial period were similar to what a restaurant is today. 5. Performers were always employees of the tavern owners. 6. Only adult males provided the music in colonial taverns. 7. Some songs had political themes. 8. People visited taverns to eat and drink. 9. The music for the Star Spangled Banner was originally used for a patriotic English tavern song. 10. The violin was the only instrument used to accompany tavern music.

3 Quotes about Taverns 1. Throughout the British world at that time, taverns... offered much more than accommodation for travelers and refreshment for locals. They were important public spaces where a variety of community activities took place. they were the scenes of countless public and private functions. Informal political debates went on openly and frequently in the public rooms Daniel B. Thorp, Taverns and Tavern Culture on the Southern Colonial Frontier: Rowan County, North Carolina, The Journal of Southern History, Volume 112, No. 4, November Almost all of the tavern keepers owned musical instruments, usually recorded in their inventories as fiddles ; and James Shield had In the Barr of his public house [tavern] in 1750, 1 old fiddle, 1 old Hautboy [oboe]. Bullock, Helen Claire Duprey, On Music in Colonial Williamsburg, thesis, March 21, Around the simple hearth which blazes yet The simple planters of Virginia met, The Discussed the news, and cursed in equal terms The odious Stamp Act and tobacco worms. - St. George Tucker, An Epic of William and Mary College, in The Southern Literary Messenger, John R. Thompson, ed., Vol. 28. (Richmond: Macfarlane, Fergusson & Co., 1859). 4. The music can tell us a lot. It reveals to us, in a way that text or lectures cannot, the joys, fears, heroes, virtues, vices, politics, and aspirations of the ordinary men and women who lived two centuries ago. - Ed Crews, Tavern Music, The Colonial Williamsburg Journal, Winter Taverns of the 1700s were partially museums, gentlemen s clubs, circuses, schools, and business offices. They were the grandfather of the nineteenth-century saloon, and the greatgrandfather of the modern American nightclub. - Ed Crews, Tavern Music, The Colonial Williamsburg Journal, Winter "For the LADIES and GENTLEMEN, There will be a BALL, AT Henry Wetherburn's [tavern] on Tuesday Evening next, the 10th instant, and on every Tuesday during the sitting of the General Assembly." - Virginia Gazette, March 5, List of rooms in the Raleigh tavern from its inventory: Parlour Ladies Withdrawing Room Gentlemen s Reception Room Tap Room (bar where alcohol is served) Apollo Room (private dining room) Daphne Room (private dining room)

4 Public Dining Room (with multiple tables, chairs, and table settings) Six Bedrooms (each with multiple beds) Office Porch -Raleigh Tavern Architectural Report, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 8. [Christiana Campbell s tavern] provided rooms and food for people who traveled to Williamsburg to conduct business with government officials or who attended the regular meetings of the colony's merchants. When the General Assembly was in session, Campbell hosted members of the House of Burgesses, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Washington recorded in his diary that he dined there 10 times in two months. Christiana Campbell,

5 An Ode (British Lyrics) God save great George our King, Long live our noble King, God save the King. Send Him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the King. An Ode (American Lyrics, excerpt) FREE STATES, attend the song, Now independent on The British throne: To earth s remotest bound Echoing skies resound The sweet melodious sound Liberty s our own. O Lord our God, arise, Scatter his enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politicks, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On him our hopes we fix, God save us all. Let haughty Britons feel It s dread victorious steel Make them to fall: Crush all the tyrant s crew Dogs that our lives pursue; WASHINGTON, them subdue Conquer them all. Thy choicest Gifts in store, On Him be pleas d to pour, Long may He reign. May He defend our Laws, And ever give us cause, To sing with heart and voice, God save the King. God bless the COMMONWEALTH, May it increase in strength, It s foes annoy. That George is now no more King of this fertile shore, From whence he drew his store Completes our joy.

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