1662- 1675 Anglican liturgy returns and enters an era of revitalization late 1600's Playford's Introduction to the Skill of Musick rules for contrapuntal writing for two and three voices were used by the emerging rural self taught psalmodists and the later New England tunesmiths. It uses fasola solfege. Playford establishes the forerunner of the singing school tradition for parish clerks. He publishes widely disseminated psalters that the early American psalters are directly indebted to. 1720's Tufts psalter is published which draws heavily on material published previously in Playford's psalters.
Singing schools begin in New England, use fasola solfege.
Other English tunesmiths produce a flurry of the new 'fuging tune' style. Tans'ur's books include compositional rules pretty much directly swiped from Playford. 1760's Lyon's Urania published. A large emigration of the Borderer peoples from northern England, lowland Scotland, and northern Ireland occurs. These Borderer peoples infiltrate through Pennsylvania into the backland highland regions of the Appalachians.