Music and Letters 93.2

(August 2012), pp. 241–3

Nicholas Temperley is English by birth and holds a PhD from Cambridge University. From 1967 to 1996 he was a professor at the University of Illinois. He has published extensively as a musicologist and has been remarkably influential in raising the profile of nineteenth-century British music. He has written two seminal books in the field of religious music: The Music of the English Parish Church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), and Studies in English Church Music (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009). Temperley created and continues to direct the Hymn Tune Index, an online catalogue of all tunes published for use with English-language hymns between 1535 and 1820. He is now co-editing the first critical edition of the popular sixteenth-century Sternhold and Hopkins psalm book.

Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings. By Bernarr Rainbow, with introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge, edited by Peter Dickinson, pp. xiii + 398 (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2010, £25. ISBN 978-1-84383-592-9.)