Nathaniel Billings

Life

Born: 3 August 1768, Northborough, Massachusetts

Died: 18 December 1853, Paterson, New Jersey

Biography

American composer and musician. He worked in and around Cooperstown, New York.

List of choral works

A. BY TITLE

Fly Crick Morning Song

New Springfield Oak's Creek

Otsego

B. BY FIRST LINE

Behold God's works in various ways Bless, O my soul, the living God

Come, let us join our cheerful songs God of the morning, at whose voice

When all thy mercies, O my God

 
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Publications

• Billings, Nathaniel. 1795. The Republican Harmony. Lansingburgh, New York: Silvester Tiffany.

References

• Kroeger, Karl, and Joan R. Callahan. 2003. The "Other" Billings: The Life and Music of Nathaniel Billings (1768-1853), an Early American Composer. Notes 60(2):377-392.
• Link, Eugene P. 1970. The Republican Harmony (1795) of Nathaniel Billings. Journal of Research in Music Education 18(4):414-419.