William Billings (October 7, 1746 – September 26, 1800) is regarded as the first American choral composer and leading member of the First New England School...

18th-century hymn tune by American choral composer William Billings, who worked in New England. Billings wrote "Africa" some time before 1770 and included...

Earl William Billings (born July 4, 1945) is an American actor, best known as Rob in the television series What's Happening!!. Billings was born in Cleveland...

Samuel William Billings (born 15 June 1991) is an English professional cricketer. Billings is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper. He...

Robert William Billings (London 25 July 1812 – 14 November 1874 London) was a British architect and author. He trained as a topographical draughtsman,...

Billings is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 census. Located in the south-central portion...

mother was of German ancestry and his father, William Billings, was born in Massachusetts. William Billings died in 1895, he left his wife and nine children...

Creation is a hymn tune composed by William Billings. Billings included Creation in his final collection, The Continental Harmony (published in 1794)....

Dissertation on Musical Taste and other works. The principal tunesmiths were William Billings, Supply Belcher, Daniel Read, Oliver Holden, Justin Morgan, Lewis Edson...

"Chester" is a patriotic anthem composed by William Billings and sung during the American Revolutionary War. Billings wrote the first version of the song for...

Farmer – The Lord's Prayer 1625: Heinrich Schütz – Pater Noster 1783: William Billings – "Kittery" (words from Tate and Brady) 1854: Josef Rheinberger – Vater...

from the album Hyperview "Rose of Sharon" (William Billings song), a choral anthem by William Billings "Rose of Sharon", a song by Xiu Xiu from La Forêt...

time". William Billings, a singing school teacher, created the first tune book with only American born compositions. Within his books, Billings did not...

Creation, album by Leslie Satcher 2005 "Creation" (William Billings), a hymn tune composed by William Billings The Creation, 1954, an orchestral song by Wolfgang...

Norman Dinerstein). This verse is also used in "David's Lamentation" by William Billings, first published in 1778. Leonard Cohen's poem "Prayer for Sunset"...

Billings First Church, is an Open and Affirming United Church of Christ (UCC) congregation in downtown Billings, Montana. Founded in 1882 as Billings'...

Common and contains the graves of artist Gilbert Stuart and composer William Billings. Also buried there are Samuel Sprague and his son Charles Sprague,...

works include the New England Triptych (1956, based on melodies by William Billings), the American Festival Overture (1939), the ballets Undertow (1945)...

influential figure was William Billings (1746–1800), a native of Boston, who was a self-taught amateur musician and a tanner. William Billings was part of the...

oblong-shaped tunebook, usually containing tunes with only one stanza of text. William Billings was one of the most important of the New England singing school teachers...

a 2006 song by Bellowhead from Burlesque "Jordan", a hymn tune by William Billings "Jordan", a 1998 song by Megaherz from Kopfschuss Jordan, Daviess County...

in separate movements. The piece sets texts by George Washington, William Billings, Thomas Jefferson, Maria Cosway, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln...

(April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885), better known by the pen name Josh Billings, was a 19th-century American humorist and lecturer. Shaw was born in Lanesborough...

served by hymnals for West gallery singing imported from England. William Billings of Boston took the first step beyond West Gallery music in publishing...

Society. Also, he was not a pupil at the Stoughton singingschool, where William Billings taught in 1774. After the war, in 1785, he moved first to Hallowell...

"Antelopes"), a Series A episode of the television series QI (2003) "Africa" (William Billings), an 18th-century hymn tune Africa, an 1891 fantasia by Camille Saint-Saëns...

and recorded by Neil Diamond "Shiloh", a Christmas carol written by William Billings in 1781 “Shiloh,” a song written and recorded by Buju Banton, from...

named Billings moved into the area and the family's father and his oldest son, William, worked as day laborers to support their large family. William Billings...

James Martin Episode: "Eight O'Clock and All Is Well" The Young Rebels William Billings Episode: "Valley of the Guns" The Bold Ones: The Lawyers Nick Chapman...

William Howard Billings (August 21, 1921 – May 23, 1991) was a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. Prior to his appointment by then-Governor Kit Bond...