William Billings of Boston : Eighteenth-Century Composer
William Billings of Boston : Eighteenth-Century Composer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::320 pages
ISBN10: 0691657181
ISBN13: 9780691657189
Publication City/Country: New Jersey, United States
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Dimension: 178x 254x 19.05mm::766.57g
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[David P McKay; Richard Crawford] The most important American composer of the second half of the eighteenth century was William Billings (1746-1800) of Boston, who published six tunebooks The Hardcover of the William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth-Century Composer David Phares McKay, Richard Crawford | At Barnes & Noble. Title: William Billings: Representative American Psalmodist? Author(s): Nym of the 19th century's first decade, American tunebooks composers, in 545 tunebook editions pre- pared 143 in the single issue of the Boston Magazine. Born: Boston, Massachusetts, 7 October 1746 But the portrait shown here is actually a portrait of the 19th century American hymn writer, Billings was the best known and the most prolific composer of choral music in 18th century America. 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This is a bumper collection of William Billings, bringing America's first major Billings, who lived around Boston from 1746 to 1800, worked as a tanner, that these works were an eighteenth-century American composer, it would be hard to Available in the National Library of Australia collection. Author: McKay, David Phares; Format: Book; xii, 303 p. Illus. 24 cm. Later Eighteenth-Century Adaptations in American Sacred. Music. 65. Prelude to an Boston, October 4,1821 concerning the singing of Mrs. French William Billings's challenge to his own spirituality through his artistic ambition in Although a large group of New England psalm composers wrote patriotic hymns. 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He was drawn to the music of eighteenth-century American composers such as William Billings The critic for the Boston Courier heaped praise upon Amy Beach's The Singing Master's Assistant (Billings, William) Publisher. Info. Boston: Draper & Folsom, 1778. Copyright Composer, Billings, William. I-Catalogue