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William Billings: "A Land of Pure Delight" - Anthems and Fuging Tunes -- Paul Hillier

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Date: 31 May 2013 00:28:12

William Billings: "A Land of Pure Delight" - Anthems and Fuging Tunes -- Paul Hillier

William Billings, one of the first true American composers (1746-1800), was a tanner and a "singing master" – that is, a person who taught choirs and small vocal ensembles to read music and to sing in parts. His tune "Chester" was the Revolutionary War's equivalent of "Over There." The "singing schools," perhaps the greatest force in the musical life of the colonies and the early republic, split into two branches, reflecting a cultural split in the country itself: New England vs. the South. The music is vocal, mostly choral, and intended mainly for use in churches. Most of the composers in both schools did other things to make a living. Justin Morgan, a highly original composer of the Southern school, among other things raised and bred horses. Very few composers had more than rudimentary training. As a result, the music sounds like a stitching-together of half-remembered Baroque counterpoint, Renaissance modes, and Bay Psalm hymnody – handmade, the opposite of slick. This resulted in a vigorous music, at its best, which differed from the current European product. The lack of sophisticated technique greatly emphasized the importance of quality material – melody, declamation, harmony. It succeeded so well that it soaked into the musical life of the country, through the Sacred Harp collection and the Big Sings of Kentucky, with hardy persistence up to the end of the 19th century, when it began to decline. Still, it flourished in isolated rural areas until after World War II.
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The forms are fairly simple: mainly, hymns, anthems, and fuguing tunes. A hymn consists of a tune harmonized chorale-fashion, in block chords. Neither Bach nor Handel would recognize a fuguing tune as a fugue. It is indeed imitative counterpoint, often a simple round like "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," but never anything as complicated as a "school fugue." Anthems are elaborate works in several sections and make use of both hymn and fuguing technique, often with passages sung by a single voice.
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The album succeeds very well most of the time. (…)
Steve Schwartz (Classical.net, 1996)

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_TRACKS_

1. O praise the Lord Of Heaven
2. Is any afflicted
3. EMMAUS
4. AFRICA
5. Funeral Anthem: Samuel the Priest
6. SHILOH
7. JORDAN
8. I am the Rose of Sharon
9. EUROCLYDON
10. Hear my Pray'r
11. RUTLAND
12. DAVID'S LAMENTATION
13. As the Hart panteth
14. CREATION
15. BROOKFIELD
16. Easter Anthem: The Lord is ris'n indeed

His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier, conductor

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