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... during the American Revolutionary War, only Yankee Doodle was more popular than William Billings's Chester. Billings wrote the first version of ...
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Chester," Billings's famous and stirring Revolutionary hymn, might well be compared in function and effect to Martin Luther's Ein' feste Burg. ...
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The soldiers knew them by heart, and to the sound of fife and drum they sang them as ... Music: Chester (Billings), William Billings. Let tyrants shake ...
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Chester," Billings's famous and stirring Revolutionary hymn, might well be compared in function and effect to Martin Luther's Ein' feste Burg. ...
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America's first published composer. The second was another American composer, William ... Chester, Billings. hymn tune, is named for Chester, Massachusetts. ...
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An American Hymn (Chester) - Billings / Del Borgo. Series: Playground String Orchestra ... William Billings illustrious hymn, Chester, is scored at the grade 1 level for string ...
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Chester - Billings/Tolmage *Two Gaelic Folk Songs - Tyra. From Shire ... Modal Song and Dance - Del Borgo *Sea Song Trilogy - McGinty *Atlantis - McGinty ...
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Chester Billings (1780 - 1851) Jemima Crane (1786 - 1875) Silvia ... b. 26 Jun 1815, Throop, Cayuga, NY226. d. 6 Sep 1867, Lima Twp, Washtenaw, MI, age: 52226 ...
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Puritans sang psalms and hymns, mostly from the little book of psalms brought from ... the times; however, with "Chester," Billings introduced American music to the progressive ...
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Fresh arrangements of folk and Baroque flow into original pieces for York River State ... Chester (Billings)/Red-haired Boy (Trad.) The Great Road (T.Seaman) ...