In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

With changes in the public's musical taste Billings' fortunes declined. His funeral will be tomorrow at 4 o'clock PM from the house of Mrs.

Amos Penniman in Chamber-street West-Boston. At the age of 14 the death of his father stopped Billings' formal schooling. " Married with six children Billings died in poverty on September 26 1800.