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William Billings
Sign in to saveAmerican choral composer (1746-1800)
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- Works
- 14
Top works
- conrinental harmond
- Suffolk Harmony
- Psalm-Singer's Amusement
- Euroclydon
- Singing Master's Assistant, or Key to Practical Music. Being an Abridgement from the New-England Psalm-Singer; Together with Several Other Tunes, Never Before Published. Composed by William Billings
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1746
- Active to
- 1800
Discography
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William Billings (1746-1800) is considered one of the first significant composers of the United States. He composed and published over 340 choral pieces during his lifetime. From his many published writings Billings manifested a strong personality: "For my own Part, as I don't think myself confin'd to any Rules for Composition laid down by any that went before me, neither should I think (were I to pretend to lay down Rules) that any who came after me were any ways obligated to adhere to them <a
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 63,006x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,855x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,582x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,951x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,686x
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Quotes
- “Let tyrants shake their iron rod, And Slav'ry clank her galling chains, We fear them not, we trust in God, New England's God forever reigns.”
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