From Ritual to Art in the Puritan Music of Colonial New England: the Anthems of William Billings
The manner in which Billings’s music contrasts with the Puritan musical ideal clearly demonstrates his role in the transition from ritual to art in the music of eighteenth-century New England. The tenets of Puritan worship included the restriction that music should serve primarily as a form of comm...
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University of North Texas
2012
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| Online Access: | https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149583/ |