A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #499
Tune Title: LITTLE CORNARD First Line: Lord of our growing years Composer: Martin Shaw Meter: 666688 Key: D Major Date: 1992
A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #499

Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music.
Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs… Go to person page >| Title: | LITTLE CORNARD |
| Composer: | Martin Shaw (1915) |
| Meter: | 6.6.6.6.8.8 |
| Incipit: | 61233 65312 36176 |
| Key: | E♭ Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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