A NOTED MUSICIAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 7

A NOTED MUSICIAN

DEATH OF SIR RICHARD TERRY LONDON, April 19. The death has occurred of Sir Richard Terry. / Sir Richard Terry had a fine education at Oxford and Cambridge, gaining the choral scholarship at King’s College, Cambridge. He held the position of organist and choirmaster at Elstow School, St John’s Cathedral, Antigua, Downside Abbey and Downside School, and at Westminster Cathedral from 1901 to 1924. He was editor of the ‘Musical News and Herald” during the period 1924-25, and president of the Union of Music Directors in Secondary Schools. He held the posts of vicepresident of the Union of Graduates in Music, and examiner in music at the National University of Ireland and Birmingham University, where he was also lecturer for a time; he was lecturer at Leeds University for a period also giving lectures at Oxford. He was the author of a number of books, including “On Music’s Borders,” ‘A Forgotten Psalter and Other Essays,” ‘A Medieval Carol Book,” “Voodooism in Music,” and he proved very versatile as a composer, writing much church music, masses and motets as well as using the other forms of musical expression. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Organists and edited much hitherto unpublished music of the sixteenth century, music chiefly written by old English composers.