The Republican Harmony (Nathaniel Billings)

General information

Title: The Republican Harmony

Full title: The Republican Harmony, containing the rudiments of music, in a concise manner; together with a collection of sacred music both ancient and modern: some of the latter are original. Designed for the use of singing schools and worshipping societies.

Editor – Compiler – Composer: Nathaniel Billings

Publication date and place: 1795 printed by Silvester Tiffany in Lansingburgh, New York.
Description:

External websites:

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.

List of works

(New works in this book are linked)

1. Acton (Abraham Wood) – Plain tune
2. Amanda (Justin Morgan) – Extended tune
3. Amity (Daniel Read) – Fuging-tune
4. Andover (Joseph Strong) – Extended tune
5. Attention (Jacob French) – Fuging-tune
6. Bangor (William Tansur) – Plain tune
7. Blessing of the Spring (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
8. Boylston (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
9. Braintree (Bruce) – Fuging-tune
10. Byford (Oliver Brownson) – Plain tune
11. Canton (Timothy Swan) – Fuging-tune
12. Castle (Jacob French) – Fuging-tune
13. Christmas Hymn (Anonymous) – Extended tune
14. Civil Amusement (Amariah Hall) – Fuging-tune
15. Conquest (William Billings) – Extended tune
16. Conviction (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
17. Cooperstown (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
18. Fairfield (Giovanni Bononcini) – Extended tune

19. Flanders (Timothy Swan) – Extended tune
20. Fly Crick (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
21. Fragility (Nathaniel Billings) – Extended tune
22. Gardner (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
23. Hebron (Oliver King) – Fuging-tune
24. Invitation (Anonymous) – Extended tune
25. Invocation to Charity (Oliver Holden) – Set piece
26. Jordan (William Billings) – Extended tune
27. Laindon (John Arnold) – Plain tune
28. Last Day (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
29. Lisbon (Timothy Swan) – Extended tune
30. Massachusetts (Nathaniel Billings) – Set piece
31. Montgomery (Justin Morgan) – Fuging-tune
32. Newton (Isaac Smith) – Plain tune
33. Norfolk (Oliver Brownson) – Fuging-tune
34. Oaks Creek (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
35. Orange (Nathaniel Billings) – Extended tune
36. Otsego (Nathaniel Billings) – Set piece

37. Protection (Nathaniel Billings) – Extended tune
38. Recovery (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
39. Repentance (Asahel Benham) – Plain tune
40. Request (Nathaniel Billings) – Extended tune
41. Resurrection (Daniel Read) – Extended tune
42. Sabbath (Jacob French) – Extended tune
43. Sanbornton (Anonymous) – Fuging-tune
44. Shelburne (Alexander Gillet) – Fuging-tune
45. Sincerity (Nathaniel Billings) – Plain tune
46. Stratfield (Ezra Goff) – Fuging-tune
47. Summer (Nathaniel Billings) – Extended tune
48. Supplication (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
49. Sutton (Oliver Brownson) – Fuging-tune
50. Union (Solomon Chandler) – Plain tune
51. Weathersfield (Nathaniel Billings) – Fuging-tune
52. Westford (Samuel Holyoke) – Extended tune
53. Winter (Daniel Read) – Plain tune

Works at CPDL

Title	Composer	No.	Genre	Subgenre	Year	Lyricist	First Line	Meter	Vo.	Voices
Fly Crick	Nathaniel Billings	20	Sacred		1795	Joseph Addison	When all thy mercies, O my God	86. 86 (C.M.)	4	SATB
Oak's Creek	Nathaniel Billings	34	Sacred	Psalm-tunes	1795	Isaac Watts	Bless, O my soul, the living God	88. 88 (L.M.)	4	SATB
Otsego	Nathaniel Billings	36	Sacred	Set pieces	1795	Farnsworth	Behold God's works in various ways	88. 88 (L.M.)	4	SATB
Sanbornton	Anonymous	43	Sacred		1793	Isaac Watts	Now in the heat of youthful blood	88. 88 (L.M.)	4	SATB