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Edward Miller (musician) of the Most Noble the Marquis of Rockingham" (London, n. d.), and Fetis states that he began a translation of J. J. Rousseau's "Dictionnaire de la Musique," of which a few proofs of the first eighteen pages were printed, but no more. Miller arranged the tune "Rockingham" as a hymn tune in 1790, to which Isaac Watts' hymn ""When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"" is sung. Miller also wrote the tune "Galway", to which Charles Wesley's hymn ""A charge to keep I have"" is sung. He died at Doncaster on 12 September 1807. Edward Miller (musician) Edward Miller (1731 or