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William Holder (
1616 -
January 24,
1698) was an
English music theorist of the
17th century. His most notable work was his widely known 1694 publication
A Treatise on the Natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony.
He was a fellow of
Pembroke Hall,
Cambridge in 1640, and married Susanna Wren in 1643. In 1660 at
Bletchingdon he taught a deaf mute, Alexander Popham to speak ‘plainly and distinctly, and with a good and graceful tone’. In 1662 he received a
D.D. Oxon., and was a fellow of the
Royal Society in 1663. He became a
Canon of
St. Paul's in 1672, and served as sub-dean of the
Chapel Royal from 1674 until 1689 when he resigned. In 1687 he'd been preferred to the rectory of
Therfield. A few of his musical compositions survive in the
British Library in the Harleian MSS 7338 and 7339.
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