John Marsh - the 1750's

from The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), page 12:

At this time it was that I first began to be pleased with vocal music in parts, it being the custom of my grandfathers on a Sunday evening, after reading a sermon etc. to sing a psalm or two together, in which my aunts & I used to sing the treble (or air), my uncle George the tenor & my uncle Henry the bass, by which addition to the melody I thought the effect much improv'd & render'd very grand.
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John Marsh, and Brian Robins (ed.), The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), volume - (Stuyvesant, New York, 1998), p. 12. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1394227078221 accessed: 19 April, 2024

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John Marsh
Gentleman, violinist, Composer, Music criticism […]
1752-1828

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psalm performed by John Marsh

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Date/Time the 1750's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by iepearson on Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:01:17 +0000