William Harison

William Harison is attributed the harmonization of the psalm tune LINCOLN in Ravenscroft's 1621 Psalter. Eitner supposes him to have lived in the 17th century, but Judith Blezzard suggested that he might be the well known historian William Harrison (1534-1593), but considered it inconclusive (Blezzard 312ff.). The historian Harrison was knowledgeable about music, and was a supporter of congregational Psalm-singing in churches, but is not known to have been a composer (Parry, 150, 155).

--Eitner, Robert. "William Harrison." Biographisch-bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900-1904, vol. 5, p. 28.

--Blezzard, Judith. "Church music in Tudor times: compilation and scribal practices with special reference to a Protestant manuscript." The Library (Oxford University Press), ser. 6, vol. 20, no. 4 (December 1998), pp. 301-324

--Parry, G. J. R. A Protestant vision: William harrison and teh Reformation of Elizabethan England. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1987.