Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Beckwith, Dr

by John Weeks Moore

Beckwith, Dr., organist of the cathedra: and of St. Peter's at Norwich, was a very able theoretical and practical musician, and a scholar of the Hayses of Oxford. Some very simple instructions by him, for playing thorough bass, are given in the first volume of the "Quarterly Musical Review," p. 380. Dr. Beckwith was the master of Vaughan, the singer. He composed the glee, "Hark o'er the waves," and "The Suppliant's Prayer," a song. " Six Anthems" of his are also published by Clementi.