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² Kroeger, Karl and Dickinson, Peter, ‘Introduction’, American Music, 4/1 (spring 1986): 1.Google Scholar

³ Temperley, Nicholas, The Music of the English Parish Church, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1979).Google Scholar

⁴ Temperley, Nicholas, assisted by Manns, Charles G. and Herl, Joseph, The Hymn Tune Index, 4 vols (Oxford, 1998).Google Scholar

⁵ See Owen, Barbara, ‘The Other Mr. Selby’, American Music, 8/4 (winter 1990): 477–2. See also,CrossRefGoogle ScholarTemperley, Nicholas, ‘Selby, William’, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 2001), vol. 23: 55.Google Scholar John Selby left for Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1776, at about the time William Selby was beginning a four-year tenure as organist of Boston‘s Trinity Church.

⁶ ‘Rayner’ has become the accepted spelling, rather than the previously used ‘Raynor’.

⁷ See WorldCat, accession numbers 29751505 (for the music) and 35685175 (for the recording, listed as NWR 232). The musical reconstruction was done by Victor Fell Yellin. Two works appear in New World's Music of the Federal Era (NWR 299): a glee for three high voices and keyboard, ‘The Silver Rain’, and a two-movement ‘Sonata for the Piano Forte with an Accompaniment for a Violin’. An impressive number of vocal and instrumental works have been published since the 1970s.

⁸ Cuthbert, John A., ‘Rayner Taylor and American Musical Life’, Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University, 1980.Google Scholar Victor Fell Yellin has written about Taylor in American Music: ‘Rayner Taylor’, 1/3 (fall 1983): 48–71;Google Scholar‘Rayner Taylor's Music for The Aethiop, I’, 4/3 (fall 1986): 249–67;Google Scholar‘Rayner Taylor's Music for The Aethiop, II’, 5/1 (spring 1987): 20–47Google Scholar.

⁹ Temperley discusses the authorship of this journal article on pp. 52–3.

¹⁰ Jackson's life and works are covered in detail in Kaufman, Charles H., ‘Doctor George K. Jackson, American Musician of the Federal Period’, MA thesis, New York University, 1968Google Scholar.