Steve Schwartz wrote:

>He [Benjamin Franklin] also, as a Phildelphian, traveled to the Moravian
>settlements of Pennsylvania - probably the most sophisticated music-making
>in English-speaking America -

Except that the music makers themselves may well have been German
speaking!, having settled in Pennsylvania from Herrnhut in Saxony.

The Columbia Encyclopedia notes that the "music in Moravian churches is
famous, especially the part-singing of the congregations."

Walter Meyer