Mr. Langham et al. in near Newmarket, Suffolk - in the middle of the 1760's
from Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft: Written by Himself; and Continued to the Time of His Death., pages 143-145:
From the little I that day learned, and from another [singing] lesson or two, I obtained a tolerable conception of striking intervals upwards or downwards; such as the third, the fourth, and the remainder of the octave, the chief feature in which I soon understood, but of course I found most difficulty in the third, sixth and seventh. Previously however to any great progress, I was obliged to purchase Arnold’s Psalmody; and studious over this divine… more >>
Thomas Holcroft, and William Hazlitt (ed.), Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft: Written by Himself; and Continued to the Time of His Death., volume 1 (London, 1816), p. 143-145. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1656601836824 accessed: 8 November, 2024
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hide composersfour-part singing practice | performed by Mr. Langham, adult singing students, Thomas Holcroft |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of the 1760's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Langham also instructed Holcroft in mathematics. Thomas Holcroft had a remarkable memory and a great hunger for learning, including literacy, numeracy, singing, violin and was an able, clever stableboy at this time. He studied in earnest John Arnold’s Church Music Reformed, Or The Art of Psalmody Universally Explained Unto All People (1765), so his claim of illiteracy was excessively modest.