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*{{NoCo|Wheelers Point}} (Dear Lord! Behold our sore distress) {{editions|2}} | *{{NoCo|Wheelers Point}} (Dear Lord! Behold our sore distress) {{editions|2}} | ||
*{{NoCo|When Jesus wept}} {{LLinkW|billings/bill-wjw.pdf|billings/bill-wjw.mid|billings/bill-wjw.zip|Finale 1998}} | *{{NoCo|When Jesus wept}} {{LLinkW|billings/bill-wjw.pdf|billings/bill-wjw.mid|billings/bill-wjw.zip|Finale 1998}} | ||
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*{{NoCo|Worcester}} (How short and hasty are our lives) {{editions|2}} | *{{NoCo|Worcester}} (How short and hasty are our lives) {{editions|2}} |
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Life
Born: 7 October 1746
Died: 26 September 1800
Biography
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List of choral works
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- A Virgin unspotted (see Judea)
- Adoration (To God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit) ( )
- Africa ( Finale 1998 )
- America (Come, let us sing unto the Lord) (2 editions available)
- Amherst (To God the mighty Lord, your joyful thanks repeat) (2 editions available)
- And I saw a mighty angel ( )
- Andover ( )
- Ashford (The Lord Himself, the mighty Lord) (2 editions available)
- Asia (Behold, the lofty sky declares its maker, God) (2 editions available)
- As the hart panteth ( Sibelius )
- Assurance ( )
- Baptism (O how doth God our souls surprise) (3 editions available)
- Bellingham (Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme) (2 editions available)
- Beneficence (That man is blest who stands in awe) (2 editions available)
- Benevolence (Happy the man whose tender care) (2 editions available)
- Berlin ( )
- Bethlehem ( [ Capella] )
- Blessed is he that considereth the poor (Anthem for charity meetings) ( )
- Bolton ( Allegro 2007 )
- Boston ( Finale 1998 )
- Brattle Square (Come, let us join our cheerful songs) (2 editions available)
- Brattle Street (1770) (Just are Thy ways, and true Thy word) (2 editions available)
- Brattle Street (1786) (Sweet is the work, my God, my King) (2 editions available)
- Broad Cove ( )
- Brookfield (2 editions available)
- Brookline (The heavens declare Thy glory, Lord) (4 editions available)
- Brunswick (2 editions available)
- Burlington (Canaan promised is before) (2 editions available)
- Camden (My soul the great Creator Praise) (2 editions available)
- Chester (2 editions available)
- Chesterfield ( Finale 1998 )
- Clarimont (Arise and hail the sacred day) (2 editions available)
- Cobham (Teach me the measure of my days) ( [ ] )
- Cohasset ( )
- Connection ( Finale 1998 )
- Conquest (Sing the triumphs of your conquering head and crucified King) ( )
- Creation ( )
- Cross-Street (The Lord my pasture shall prepare) ( )
- David's Lamentation ( Finale 1998 )
- Dedham ( ) ( )
- Dorchester (Time, what an empty vapor 'tis) ( )
- Dunstable (With earnest longings of the mind) ( )
- Easter Anthem (3 editions available)
- Effingham (2 editions available)
- Egypt (Come see the wonders, see the wonders) ( )
- Emanuel ( )
- Emmaus ( Finale 2011 )
- Euroclydon ( )
- Exeter (2 editions available)
- Framingham (Shall wisdom cry aloud) ( ) ( )
- Gilead ( )
- Golgotha (Hark! From the tombs, a doleful sound) (2 editions available)
- Gratitude (I love the Lord because He hath heard the voice of my prayer) ( )
- Great-Plain (Ye slumb'ring saints, a heav'nly host) ( )
- Halifax (Not to our names, Thou only just and true) (2 editions available)
- Hartford ( )
- Haverhill (Through all the changing scenes of life) (2 editions available)
- Hebron (My God, my life, my love) (2 editions available)
- Here is a song, which doth belong (West-Sudbury) ( Sibelius 7 ) () ( )
- Hopkinton ( )
- I am come into my garden ( Finale 1998 )
- I am the Rose of Sharon ( Finale 1998 )
- Invocation (Majestic God, our muse inspire) ( Finale 1998 ) ( )
- Is any afflicted? ( Finale 2001 )
- Jargon (multiple editions available)
- Jordan ( Finale 1998 )
- Judea (A Virgin Unspotted) ( Sibelius 2 )
- Kittery (Our Father who in heaven art) (2 editions available)
- Lamentation over Boston (By the rivers of Watertown) (3 editions available)
- Lexington (My righteous judge, my gracious God) (2 editions available)
- Lift up your eyes ( )
- Lynn (Sweet is the memory of Thy grace) (2 editions available)
- Madrid (How charmingly sounds the word of the Lord) ( )
- Majesty ( Finale 1998 )
- Manchester ( )
- Marblehead (How vast must their advantage be!) (2 editions available)
- Medway (Sing to the Lord Jehovah's name) (2 editions available)
- Mendom ( )
- Milton (Thee will I laud, my God and King) (2 editions available)
- Modern Musick ( Finale 2001 )
- Morning Hymn ( )
- Mourn, mourn ( )
- My God, my life, my love ( )
- Norfolk (Let the old heathen tune their song) (2 editions available)
- North Providence (Come, let us join our cheerful songs with angels round the throne) (2 editions available)
- O Lord, our fathers oft have told ( )
- O praise the Lord of heaven (2 editions available)
- Paria (Ye boundless realms of joy) (2 editions available)
- Petersburgh (Thus saith the high, the lofty one) ( )
- Philadelphia (Let diff'ring nations join to celebrate) (2 editions available)
- Pomfret (How good and pleasant must it be) (2 editions available)
- Princetown (Lord, hear the voice of my complaint) (2 editions available)
- Redemption (The'Eternal speaks, all heaven attends) ( )
- Rejoice ye shining worlds on high ( )
- Resignation (Thus saith the Ruler of the skies) ( )
- Revelation (Let all the heathen Writers join) ( Finale 2008 )
- Richmond ( Finale 2001 )
- Rochester (Ye Servants of God) ( Finale 2008 )
- Rocky-Nook (Those glorious minds, how bright they shine) (2 editions available)
- Rutland ( [ ] )
- Sappho ( )
- Shiloh ( Finale 1998 )
- Smithfield (Lord, who's the happy man that may) (2 editions available)
- St. Andrew's (Behold, the glories of the Lamb) (2 editions available)
- St. John's (Where are the Mourners) ( Finale 2008 ) ( )
- St. Thomas (Methinks I see my Saviour dear) ( Finale 2008 )
- Taunton (As pants the hart for cooling streams) (2 editions available)
- The dying Christian's last farewell ( )
- The dying Christian to his soul (Vital spark) ( )
- The Lord is king, and is clothed with majesty ( )
- Thomas-Town ( )
- Universal Praise (O Praise God) ( Finale 2001 )
- Variety, without method ( )
- Vermont (In vain we lavish out our lives) ( )
- Waltham (My Savior and my King, Your beauties are divine) (To Thee I made my cry) (2 editions available)
- Wake every breath ( Finale 2000 )
- Warren (Children of the heavenly King) (2 editions available)
- Washington ( Finale 2001 )
- Washington-Street (Now shall my inward joys) ( Finale 2008 )
- West-Sudbury (see Here is a song, which doth belong)
- Weymouth (Shall we go on to sin) ( )
- Wheelers Point (Dear Lord! Behold our sore distress) (2 editions available)
- When Jesus wept ( Finale 1998 )
- While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Charlston) ( )
- Who is this that cometh from Edom ( )
- Worcester (How short and hasty are our lives) (2 editions available)
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Publications
- The New-England Psalm-Singer (1770)
- The Singing Master's Assistant (1778)
- Music in Miniature (1779)
- The Psalm-Singer's Amusement (1781)
- The Suffolk Harmony (1786)
- The Continental Harmony (1794)
External links
Facsimile: Original publications from IMSLP
References
- Barbour, J. Murray. 1960. The Church Music of William Billings. 167 pp. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press.
- Fawcett-Yeske, Maxine. 1996. Stylistic Development in the Fuging Tunes of William Billings. The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning 7(1):32-46.
- Howe, Sondra W. 1996. William Billings: A Biographical Overview. The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning 7(1): 6-9. http://www-usr.rider.edu/~vrme/
- Kroeger, Karl. 1996. Two Unknown Billings Compositions in John Norman's "The Massachusetts Harmony" (1784). The Hymn 47(3):44-49.
- Kroeger, Karl, Editor. The Choral Works of William Billings. Volume 1 (1981), 383 pp. Volume 2 (1977), 362 pp. Volume 3 (1986), 399 pp. Volume 4 (1990), 332 pp. Brunswick, Maine: American Musicological Society. http://www.ams-net.org/billings/