Here rests his head (Thomas Billington)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-10-09). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 57 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information
Title: Here rests his head
Composer: Thomas Billington
Lyricist: Thomas Gray
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1785
Description: The epitaph from Gray's Elegy, published as Billington's Op. 8.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Here rests his head.