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Author: David Phares McKay Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691198454 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 320
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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.
Author: David Phares McKay Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691198454 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 320
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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.
Author: David Phares McKay Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691657181 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 316
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Author: Karl Kroeger Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: 031327827X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Hans Nathan Publisher: Detroit : Published for The College Music Society by Information Coordinators ISBN: Category : Choral music Languages : en Pages : 78
Author: William Billings Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780365222385 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 152
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Excerpt from The New-England Psalm-Singer, or American Chorister: Containing a Number of Psalm-Tunes, Anthems, and Canons; In Four and Five Parts, (Never Before Published) Agitation °f the Al will befenfible. Lsecondly, thedenfiry ofthe Air 3 for the'more denfe the Air' is, the louder will the Sound be from the fame Gaufe and, as the Loudnefs of the Sound depends upon the Magnitude of the Force im prefled 'upon the Ab by the tremulous bodys it follows, that the more denfe the Air is, the greater will be the Force impreii'ed upon the Air, by a tremulous E°dy agitated With the fame Degree of Violence, and confequently the Sound will be heard at a greater Duh Thirdly, coni'piring Winds for as'theparticles of Air contiguous to the (onerous body receive a certain (meantity of Motion at each Vibration of the Body, they communicatemotipn to thofi: next them. They to others, and f° on lucmfly 5 bl; as the circular Waves continually increafe in theirsurface as: they depart from the Center, they mull conleq'uently communicate Motion to larger Portions of Air, {0 that the Force not the Velo 6 °f an Mm mm mam? Deemfe' ti finally it will be fo far 1011, as 1161 to be to the Ear; this takes placein aperfeét Calm But when a current of Air confpires with this undulatory Motion, it meets with lefs Re-z filiance, and confequently will have the fame Force, and be audible at a greater Difiance. There are numerous Erpe riments by which it has been found, that Sound is dible, Sixty or Eighty Miles And in the Fight between England and Holland A. D. 1662, the Report of the Cann 'n was heard at the Diflahce of 200 Miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Michael Broyles Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300127898 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 397
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From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.
Author: Charles E. Brewer Publisher: American Music and Musicians ISBN: 9781576472545 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 288
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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.
Author: David Phares McKay
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