Edward Miller
Edward Miller wrote the hymn tunes Rockingham and Galway, still sung to Watts’s “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” and Wesley’s “A charge to keep I have”. His church music shaped parish psalmody across the English-speaking world.
Miller spent fifty years as organist at St George’s, Doncaster, and wrote practical books for working musicians, among them The Institutes of Music, which ran to many editions, and a treatise on thorough bass and composition. His psalm collections set texts for the church year and for Methodist use, issued by subscription on a large scale. Earlier work includes solos for German flute and sonatas for harpsichord; he had also played flute in Handel’s orchestra. Rockingham, arranged as a hymn tune in 1790, is the line by which most listeners still know him.
Compositions by Edward Miller appear on
Hymns For All Seasons
16 more hymns from Cantus Choro, sung in the grand acoustic of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne. The hymns start with Advent and trace the great events of the Christian year. With Norman Kaye and the Melbourne Brass Ensemble.
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