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.
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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
Otsego	Nathaniel Billings	36	Sacred	Set pieces	1795	Farnsworth	Behold God's works in various ways	88. 88 (L.M.)	4	SATB
Fly Crick	Nathaniel Billings	20	Sacred		1795	Joseph Addison	When all thy mercies, O my God	86. 86 (C.M.)	4	SATB
Sanbornton	Anonymous	43	Sacred		1793	Isaac Watts	Now in the heat of youthful blood	88. 88 (L.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