Edward Miller

About Edward Miller

Edward Miller (1731 or 1735 – 1807) was an English musician, composer and historian of Doncaster. He is most noted as the writer of the hymn tunes Rockingham and Galway.

Overview

Edward Miller (1731 or 1735 – 1807) was an English musician, composer and historian of Doncaster. He is most noted as the writer of the hymn tunes Rockingham and Galway. Life Miller was the son of a pavior, but left home to study music, from Charles Burney, who was then at King's Lynn. For a time he was a flautist in Handel's orchestra. In 1752, he published 'Six Solos for the German Flute' (London). On 25 July 1756, he was appointed organist of St George's Minster Doncaster in 1756 and continued in the post for 50 years, on the recommendation of James Nares, and he supplemented his resources by giving lessons on the pianoforte. In 1768, he published 'Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord' (London), and in 1771 the work by which he is best known, The Institutes of Music,; this work ran into sixteen editions. In 1773, he published Twelve Songs (London), Elegies for Voice and Pianoforte (London), and in 1774, he issued by subscription, under the patronage of the king, The Psalms of David set to Music and arranged for every Sunday in the year. For this work he had over five thousand subscribers. In 1774, Francis Linley was born (blind) at Doncaster, and from an early age studied under Miller. In 1784, Miller published 'Letters in behalf of Professors of Music residing in the Country' (London), a critique of which occurs in the 'Critical Review,'. It is a plea that poor musicians in the country should benefit as well as those in London by the Handel commemoration festival then in contemplation.

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“It becoming ever more clear that the combination of racial gaps in IQ and the IQ taboo acts as a black hole that sucks all the intelligence out of an institution. Racial gaps in achievement are the overwhelmingly dominant fact driving school performance, for instance, but nobody is allowed to mention the IQ gap among the races, so misbegotten nonsense rushes in.”
— Steve Sailer, Why Do We Keep Writing About Intelligence? An IQ FAQ, VDARE, December 3, 2007
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— Steve Sailer, Crimethink and Thinking Ability, Taki's Magazine, January 30, 2012
“My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racial genetic in origin and thus not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in environment.”
— William Shockley, Interview with Black journal.
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— William Shockley, Memo to himself in 1947, regarding work on the transistor, as quoted in Broken Genius : The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age (2006) by Joel N. Shurkin, Ch. 7, p. 125.

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