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A Land of Pure Delight: William Billings Anthems and Fuging Tunes is a 1992 album of hymns, anthems and songs written by William Billings performed by the American vocal ensemble His Majestie's Clerkes conducted by Paul Hillier on Harmonia Mundi Records as a sequel to their earlier Ghoostly Psalms: Anglo-American Psalmody 1550–1800.
Among the favorite tunes by Billings sung by this choral society are: "Majesty" and "Chester". [11] The modern American composer William Schuman featured Billings' American Revolutionary War anthem "Chester", along with two other of Billings' hymns ("When Jesus Wept" and "Be Glad Then, America"), in his composition New England Triptych (1956).
The Lord's Prayer is an album by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir directed by Dr. Richard P. Condie and backed by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.Alexander Schreiner and Frank W. Asper are the organists.
A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret , or mourning . Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing ...
Billings included Creation in his final collection, The Continental Harmony (published in 1794). The words are by Isaac Watts: the first stanza is from Psalm 139 and the second from hymn 19, book 2, of his Hymns.
Another Lamentation (c. 1515–1520) by Gerard David in the Philadelphia Museum of Art While its exact dating is debated, it seems likely that it was completed between 1515 and 1523. This painting and David's Adoration of the Kings , also in the National Gallery (NG 1079), were two wings from a single altarpiece.
Rose of Sharon" is a sacred choral anthem composed by William Billings. It was first published in The Singing Master's Assistant (1778) as An Anthem, Solomons Songs, Chap 2 , [ 1 ] and was subsequently published in many early American tunebooks, including The Southern Harmony and The Sacred Harp .
Thomas Tallis set the first lesson, and second lesson, of Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday between 1560, and 1569: "when the practice of making musical settings of the Holy Week readings from the Book of Jeremiah enjoyed a brief and distinguished flowering in England (the practice had developed on the continent during the early 15th century)".