Indications Concerning Contemporaneous Performance Practice in the Prose Writings of William Billings

Choral music in the United States before 1800 was almost exclusively composed by tunesmiths who also worked as singing masters. William Billings (1746-1800) was the most prolific of these composers, and, in 1770, he was the first individual in North America to publish a collection composed entirely...

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Main Author: Stevens, Alan
Other Authors: Chamberlain, Bruce
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222835