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Tans'ur was born in Dunchurch, Warwickshire to Edward Tanzer, a labourer, and Joan Alibone.
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Tans'ur was born in Dunchurch, Warwickshire to Edward Tanzer, a labourer, and Joan Alibone.
His output includes approximately a hundred hymn tunes and psalm settings and a Te Deum. His manual A New Musical Grammar (1746) was still popular in the nineteenth century. They had at least two sons.
He taught psalmody in various places in the south-east of England, before moving to St Neots in Cambridgeshire, where he worked as a bookseller and music teacher, and spent the last forty years of his life. The unorthodox harmonic idiom of the First New England School of choral composers shows the influence of English composers such as Tans'ur and Aaron Williams:
For the most part the Yankee composer's source of information about harmonic practices derived from the music and writings on music of such comparatively unskilled English composers as William Tans'ur (1796-1783) and Aaron Williams (1731-1776), who were themselves somewhat outside the mainstream of European sacred music. In particular, "it is clear that had studied the works of English psalmodists such as William Tansur and Aaron Williams.".
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