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Acknowledgements

I acknowledge with much gratitude the assistance patiently and enthusiastically given to me by many friends and former colleagues whose knowledge of church music is infinitely greater than my own. Their contribution has been invaluable.

Canon Roger Job, sometime Academical Clerk, Magdalen College, Oxford; Precentor, Manchester Cathedral; Westminster Abbey; Winchester Cathedral.

Martin Neary, sometime Organist, St Margaret’s, Westminster; Organist and Master of the Music, Winchester Cathedral; Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey.

Malcolm Archer, sometime Organist and Master of the Choristers at Bristol, Wells and St Paul’s Cathedrals; now Director of the Chapel Choir, Winchester College.

James Bowman, Counter-tenor; sometime Academical Clerk, New College, Oxford; Lay Vicar, Westminster Abbey; now Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

Dr Francis Jackson, sometime Organist, York Minster.

Gordon Appleton, sometime Master of the Music, Perth Cathedral, Australia; since 1993 on the staff of the Royal School of Church Music, working mainly in the North of England; Director of the Northern Cathedral Singers.

Sir David Lumsden, sometime Rector Chori, Southwell Minster; Organist, New College, Oxford; Principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama; Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.

David Hill, sometime Organ Scholar, St John’s College, Cambridge; Master of the Music, Westminster Cathedral; Organist and Master of the Music, Winchester Cathedral; Director of Music, St John’s College, Cambridge; now Conductor of the BBC Singers; Musical Director of the Bach Choir; Associate Guest Conductor, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Katharine Edmonds, Organist at St John’s Church, Farley Chamberlayne, and St Mary’s Church, Michelmersh, Hampshire.

Andrew Lumsden, sometime Organ Scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge; Sub-Organist, Westminster Abbey; Organist and Director of Music, Lichfield Cathedral; now Organist and Director of Music, Winchester Cathedral.

Canon Charles Stewart, sometime Choral Scholar, St John’s College, Cambridge; Precentor, Bath Abbey; Precentor, Winchester Cathedral; now Vicar of Walton on Thames; conductor of Southern Voices.

The Very Revd Charles Taylor, sometime Organ Scholar of Selwyn College, Cambridge; Chaplain, Westminster Abbey, Precentor, Lichfield Cathedral; now Dean of Peterborough.

The Very Revd Paul Burbridge, sometime Precentor of York Minster; Archdeacon of Richmond; Dean of Norwich.

William Kendall, sometime Choral Scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge; now Tenor, Winchester Cathedral.

Irvine Watson, whose experience of the music of York Minster extends from the time of Sir Edward Bairstow to the present day.

Readers will share my gratitude to them all.