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Né à Southwell, Notts., en 1616 — mort à Hertford, le 24 Jan 1697 ou
1698.
Compositeur, élève du Pembroke College d’Oxford. En 1663, il est élu
membre de la Royal Society. En 1672, il est chanoine de la cathédrale
Saint-Paul de Londres. En 1674, il est
Sub-dean de la chapelle royale. Quelques unes de ses compositions
sont conservées sous forme manuscrite.
Voir : Keller Gottfried (vers 1639-1704) ; Mercator (1620-1687)
Écrits sur la musique
The elements of speech
A Treatise of the natural grounds and principles of harmony. By
William Holder
- London, J. Heptinstall for John Carr 1694 ; London, J.
Heptinstall for Philipp Monckton 1701 [ A treatise of the natural grounds,
and principles of harmony. By William Holder [...] To which is added, by
way of ap-pendix: Rules for playing a thorow-bass; with variety of proper
lessons, fuges, and examples [...] Also directions for tuning an
harpsichord or spinnet. By Godfrey Keller [...] The whole being revis’d,
and corrected from many gross mistakes committed in the first publication
of these rules ] ( 91 exemplaires conservé) :
Autres écrits
A discourse concerning time, with application of the natural day and
lunar month and solar year as natural; and of such as are derived from
them, as artificial parts of time, for measures in civil and common use.
For the better understanding of the Julian year and calendar. The first
column also in our church-calendar explained, with other incidental
remarks. London, Printed by J. Heptinstall for L. Meredith 1694
Éditions modernes
- Elements of speech [with an appendix concerning persons deaf and
dumb]. 1669. Scolar, Leeds 1967
- Elements of speech, and Discourse concerning time. New York,
AMS Press 1975 [with a new introduction, R. W. Rieber & Jeffrey L.
Wollock]
Bibliographie
- STANLEY JEROME,
William Holderr : His Position in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy and
Music Theory (thèse). University of Cincinnati 1983 [dir., Ph.
Crabtree & J. Kramer]
Localisation des livres imprimés anciens
A treatise of the natural grounds
- B : Bruxelles, Bibliothèque du conservatoire royal de musique -
Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale
- C : London, (Ontario), University of Western Ontario
- D : Aachen, Stadtbibliothek - Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek -
Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek - Hannover,
Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek - Leipzig, Musikbibliothek - Weimar,
Thüringische Landesbibliothek
- EIR : Dublin, Marsh’s Library
- F : Paris, Bibliothèque de France
- GB: Birmingham, University Library - Cambridge, King’s College -
Cambridge, Magdalene College - Cambridge, Pembroke College - Cambridge,
Pendlebury Library - Cambridge, St. John’s College - Cambridge, Trinity
College - Cambridge, University Library - Edinburgh, Reid library -
Glasgow, Euing Musical library - Glasgow, Euing Musical library - Glasgow,
Mitchell library - London, British Museum - London, Royal College of Music
- London, Sion College - Manchester, Public Library - Oxford, Bodleian
Library - Tenbury, St. Michael’s College - Wigan, Public Library
- I : Bologna, Biblioteca del Conservatorio (Liceo Musicale ; oggi
civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale) - Pisa, Biblioteca universitaria
- NL: Amsterdam, Tookunst Bibl. - PL : Warszawa, Bibl.
Uniwersytecka
- S : Stockholm, Musikhistoriska museet
- US: Ann Arbor, Mich., William L. Clements Library University of
Michigan - Baltimore, Md., Peabody Institute library - Berkeley, Calif.,
Music Library University of California - Bloomington, Ind., Music Library
University of Indiana - Boston, Mass., Music Department, Boston Public
Library - Chapel Hill, N.C., Music Library, University of North Carolina -
Charlottesville, Va., Alderman Library, University of Virginia - Chicago,
Ill. Newberry library - Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Library -
Cincinnati, Ohio, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
- Detroit, Mich., Detroit Public Library - Evanston, Ill., Garrett
Biblical Institute - Evanston, Ill., Northwestern Univ. - Ithaca, N.Y.,
Music Library, Cornell Univ. - Lexington, Ky., School of Music Library,
University of Louisville - Los Angeles, Calif., William Andrews Clark
Memorial Library University of California - Minneapolis, Minn., The
University of Minnesota - New Haven, Conn., School of Music Library - New
York, N. Y., Music Division, New York Public Library - New York, N. Y.,
The Bronx, Gould Library, New York Univ. - New York, N.Y., Music Library,
Columbia Univ. - Newark, N. J. Newark Museum - Philadelphia, Pa., Library
Company of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, Pa., University of Pennsylvania
Library - Pittsburgh, Pa., University of Pittsburgh Library - Richmond,
Va., Virginia State Library - Rochester, N.Y., Sibley Music Library,
Eastman School of Music - San Marino, Calif., Henry E. Huntington Library
and Art Gallery - Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Lirary - Waco,
Texas, Baylor University Library - Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare
Library - Washington, D.C., Music Division, Library of Congress
Jean-Marc Warszawski
Novembre 1995-3 avril 2008
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