Download or read book The Church Music Of William Billings written by J. Murray Barbour and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1972-03-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both in the extent and the substance of his work, William Billings was the most important composer of the pioneer period of American church music in the last third of the 18th century. His compositions consisted of anthems and psalm tunes -- sacred music except for a handful of the anthems. In his own day Billings was much admired. But even before his death a change of taste in church music had begun to take place, and this became so pronounced in a few years that Billings was almost completely forgotten except in certain rural sections of the South. In recent years an antiquarian interest in Americana has resulted in the publishing of some of Billings' psalms and anthems, including examples of the "fuguing tunes" with which he is chiefly, but erroneously, associated in the popular mind. Those who have sampled the music have found it fresh and enjoyable. They fail to understand why so many writers on musical subjects during the past half century have been both derogatory and patronizing in their appraisal of Billings' work. These detractors agree that he had tremendous enthusiasm and a certain dramatic flair; but, once these admissions have been made, the barbs have been thrust in deeply. Just how illiterate was Billings? It is the opinion of the present writer that Billings' detractors are almost totally wrong in their criticisms. His works do contain glaring faults and weaknesses; but they are seldom those of which he has been accused.
Download or read book The Church Music of William Billings written by James Murray Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Church Music of William Billings written by Dale Bruce McClellan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Church Music of William Billings written by J Murray (James Murray) 18 Barbour and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Church Music of William Billings J Murray Barbour written by J. Murray Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of the Musical Works of William Billings written by Karl Kroeger and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1991-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Billings (1746-1800) was the most important native-born composer of the American colonial and Federal eras. He wrote hundreds of choral compositions, which were set to sacred or devotional texts for use by church choirs, singing schools, and musical societies. Extremely popular in his own time, Billings's music was denigrated during the nineteenth century when European styles governed American musical tastes. In the twentieth century his genius was recognized, and his music is widely sung and studied. Originally published in six tunebooks, the 338 extant pieces were issued in a scholarly edition by the American Musicological Society and The Colonial Society of Massachusetts as The Complete Works of William Billings (4 vols., 1977-1990). The present catalog complements the Complete Works by serving as a guide to its contents and providing a wealth of additional data. Included for each composition are exact title; text source; first line; technical information on length, meter, key, and melody; manuscript sources and contemporaneous reprints; bibliography and modern recordings. An extensive list of works cited is followed by five indexes providing access to the material in the catalog by first line of text, Billings's anthem titles, text sources, musical form (tune types), and musical incipits. The catalog provides for Billings's music information similar to that found in Schmeider's listings for Bach and Koechel's listings for Mozart.
Download or read book William Billings Data and Documents written by Hans Nathan and published by Detroit : Published for The College Music Society by Information Coordinators. This book was released on 1976 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Billings of Boston written by David Phares McKay and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl and her grandmother find a chipping sparrow with a broken wing and nurse her back to health so that she can return to the wild.
Download or read book Performance Practice Considerations in the Anthems of William Billings written by Mark Vernon Hulse and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of William Billings written by William Billings and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Sweet the Sound written by David Ware Stowe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stowe traces the evolution of sacred music from colonial times to the present, from the Puritans to Sun Ra, and shows how these cultural encounters have produced a rich harvest of song and faith.
Download or read book William Billings of Boston written by David Phares McKay and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foremost American musician of the eighteenth century, William Billings wrote more than three hundred compositions and six musical collections at a time when Americans were singing almost nothing but British music. In this study, David McKay and Richard Crawford depict the man, his music, and his place in the tradition of American psalmody. The authors examine Billings' methods, innovations, and interaction with the Boston society in which he lived, placing overall emphasis on his influence on American Protestant sacred music. David McKay is Associate Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Richard Crawford is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Andrew Law, American Psalmodist (Northwestern, 1968). Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Complete Works of William Billings The Psalm Singer s Amusement 1781 The Suffolk Harmony 1786 and the occasional publications written by William Billings and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Continental Harmony written by William Billings and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title: The continental harmony: containing a number of anthems, fuges, and chorusses in several parts: never before published.Author: William BillingsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03901200CollectionID: CTRG02-B215PublicationDate: 17940101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Includes index. Error in paging: p. 168 misnumbered 198.Collation: 199, 1] p., 1] leaf of plates: ill., music; 13 x 23 cm
Download or read book The Complete Works of William Billings written by William Billings and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singing Sedition written by Charles E. Brewer and published by American Music and Musicians. This book was released on 2017 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the music of William Billings, whose works help disseminate rebellion throughout colonial New England and can be seen as the 'soundtrack' of the American Revolution.
Download or read book The Makers of the Sacred Harp written by David Warren Steel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west Georgia contemporaries who helped compile the original collection in 1844 to the contributions by various composers to the 1936 to 1991 editions. Drawing on census reports, local histories, family Bibles and other records, rich oral interviews with descendants, and Sacred Harp Publishing Company records, this volume reveals new details and insights about the history of this enduring American musical tradition. David Waren Stel is an associate professor of music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi. Richard H. Hulan is an independent scholar of American folk hymnody.
