Soon afterwards, he resigned those places and went to Cambridge, where he was admitted a member of the choirs of Trinity, St. John's, and King's[1] Colleges. Afterwards, he became master of the choristers of King's College.
He published several glees of his own composition, and The Rudiments of Singing, with about thirty solfeggi to assist persons wishing to sing at sight.
References
^Thomas Henry Case (1899). Memoirs of a King's College Chorister. W.P.Spalding. p. vi.
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