Article: The "other" billings: The Life and Music of Nathaniel Billings (1768-1853), an early American composer.(Biography)

"No one seems to know very much about Nathaniel Billings," wrote the social historian Eugene P. Link in his 1970 article, "The Republican Harmony (1795) of Nathaniel Billings." (1) William Billings was, of course, the best-known American composer of the eighteenth century, and many scholars, including Link, have wondered if Nathaniel Billings was a relative of his. Nathaniel Billings's name sometimes surfaced in American psalmody research as the compiler of a tunebook that no one had seen, and as the composer of a few pieces published in the collections of others. But like many other early American psalmodists whose compositions failed to enter the mainstream of American ...

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