William Billings
About the artist
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
Top songs
- When Jesus Wept
- Chester
- David's Lamentation
- Chester ("Let tyrants shake their iron rod")
- Creation
- I Am the Rose of Sharon
- Africa
- Shiloh
- Bethlehem
- Billings: The Suffolk Harmony, 1784: No. 1, Shiloh, "Methinks I see a heavenly host"
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- Chester - 1991 Remastered
- Billings: The Singing Master's Assistant, 1778: No. 6, Judea, "A virgin unspotted"
- Shiloh (Me thinks I see an Heav'nly Host)
- A virgin unspotted
- Is any afflicted
- Jordan
- Emmaus
- Euroclydon
- Funeral Anthem: Samuel the Priest
- O Praise The Lord Of Heaven
- Judea
- Easter Anthem "The Lord is ris'n indeed"
- Billings : A Virgin Unspotted
- Thanksgiving Anthem "O praise the Lord Of Heaven"
- As the Hart panteth
- Boston
- Hear my Pray'r
- The Psalm-Singer's Amusement: Emanuel
- Brookfield
- Rutland
- Chesterfield
- The Singing Master's Assistant: Judea
- The Shepherd's Carol
- The Singing Master's Assistant: Bethlehem
- Easter Anthem: The Lord is ris'n indeed
- Wake Ev'ry Breath
- Chester/America
- Chester: "Let the tyrants shake their iron rod"
- Chesterfield ("Death may dissolve my Body now")
- Thanksgiving Anthem: "O praise the Lord Of Heaven"
- Washington
- America
- Shepherds, Rejoice!
- Easter Anthem
- Billings: The Singing Master's Assistant: No. 6, Judea. "A Virgin Unspotted"
- Who is this that cometh from Edom?
- Thanksgiving Hymn (arr. for band)
- Cobham
- Thomas-Town ("Great God, how frail a Thing is Man")
- Billings: David's Lamentation
- Richmond
- God is the King
- Mourn, Mourn
- Jargon
- Invocation
- There Is a Land of Pure Delight
- David's Lament
- Lamentation Over Boston
- David's Lamentation - Voice
- Me Thinks I See A Heavn'ly Host - Voice
- Methinks I See an Heav'Nly Host
- Jordan: "There is a Land of pure Delight"
- Jesus Wept
- Billings: Chester
- New Boston
- An Anthem For Easter
- Retrospect
- In Deep Distress I Oft Have Cried
- Kittery
- Funeral Anthem
- Creation, from The Continental Harmony
- Praise God from whom All Blessings Flow
- Maryland
- Jordan "There is a Land of pure Delight"
- David’s lamentation
- The Singing Master's Assistant: No. 46, Richmond
- The Continental Harmony: No. 8, Invocation
- David's Lamentation - 2023 Remastered Version
- Billings: A Virgin Unspotted
- The Dying Christian's Last Farewell
- Hopkinto, When Jesus Wept, The Lord Is Risen
- O Praise the Lord of Heaven, for chorus
- Independence
- Chester "Let the tyrants shake their iron rod"
- David's Lamentation [from Samuel 18:33]
- Let tyrants shake their iron rod "Chester"
- Chester - from the Greatest Band In The Land;2001 Digital Remaster
- The Singing Master's Assistant: Chester
- Jordan, for chorus
- An Anthem, for Thanksgiving (Psalm 148)
- Emmaus (1778)
- Be glad then America - anthem
- The Singing Master's Assistant: No. 53, Warren
- Two psalm-tunes - Kittery (1786) & Cobham (1794)
- Chester, hymn
- Theme Song (Intro)
- The New-England Psalm-Singer: When Jesus wept
- Lamentations
- The New England Psalm-Singer
- Emanuel
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