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 0 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 The Complete Works of William Billings written by William Billings and published by . This book was released on 1986-06-01 with total page 402 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 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 The Complete Works of William Billings The Singing Master s Assistant 1778 Music in Miniature 1779 written by William Billings and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Complete Works of William Billings written by William Billings and published by . This book was released on 1981-06-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Suffolk Harmony written by William Billings and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music written by Don Michael Randel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.
Download or read book The American Musical Landscape written by Richard Crawford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reflects a breakthrough in American music studies, an unrecognized field among traditional musicologists until the past few decades, during which enormous progress has been made in documenting three centuries of American musical activities and figures. Time and effort had to be expended exclusively on the development of basic historical studies. The time has come for a new phase, one that can take a creative, interpretive approach. Professor Crawford's study will introduce this higher level of scholarship into the field of American music studies."—Vivian Perlis, author of Charles Ives Remembered "A major statement by a senior scholar on what American musicology is all about. . . These themes are also topical; they come at a time when much more research is being done in American music, but little thought is being given to the big picture, the vision, the philosophy, and the implications of historical research. Now is the time for a synthesis, and there are few scholars better equipped to do that in American music than Richard Crawford."—Michael Broyles, author of Music of the Highest Class
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period written by Bertil H. Van Boer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we speak of "classical music" it often refers rather loosely to serious "art" music but at the core is really the music of the classical period running from about 1730 to 1800, give or take. This was truly one of the most glorious periods for both composition and performance and it is this classical music which is still at the core of today's repertoire. Obvious names connected with this period are Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, but there were many more still reasonably well known like Gluck and C.P.E Bach, and dozens more who are regrettably little known today. This Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period includes not only these composers, but also eminent conductors and performers, patrons, and publishers. There are also dictionary entries on major centers of music-making, typical instruments, important technical terms, and emerging musical forms, including the symphony and opera. Indeed, with a 1,000 cross-referenced entries, there is information on most matters of interest. This is prefaced by an extensive chronology, tracing the course of this period from year to year, and an introduction taking a careful look at the period as a whole. Finally, there is a substantial bibliography. Surely, this is a book which will appeal not only to students and researchers but all music-lovers.
Download or read book The A to Z of Sacred Music written by Joseph P. Swain and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all religious traditions have reserved a special place for sacred music. Whether it is music accompanying a ritual or purely for devotional purposes, music composed for entire congregations or for the trained soloist, or music set to holy words or purely instrumental, in some form or another, music is present. In fact, in some traditions the relation between the music and the ritual is so intimate that to distinguish between them would be inaccurate. The A to Z of Sacred Music covers the most important aspects of the sacred music of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other smaller religious groups. It provides useful information on all the significant traditions of this music through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and important musical compositions.
Download or read book The Suffolk Harmony Consisting of Psalm Tunes Fuges and Anthems Composed by William Billings written by WILLIAM. BILLINGS and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++ 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: ++++ Library of Congress W003593 Boston: Engraved and printed by J. Norman, for the author, and sold at his house near the Liberty-Pole, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]. [2]p., 56,8,8p. of plates: music; 12 x 20 cm
Download or read book The Complete Works of William Billings The Continental Harmony 1794 written by William Billings and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
