A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Helmore, Thomas

HELMORE, Rev. Thomas, was born at Kidderminster, May 7, 1811, and educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. In 1840 he became curate of St. Michael's, Lichfield, and a priest-vicar of Lichfield Cathedral. In 1842 he was appointed Vice-Principal and Precentor of St. Mark's College, Chelsea, and in 1846 succeeded William Hawes as Master of the Choristers of the Chapel Royal, of which in 1847 he was admitted as one of the Priests in Ordinary. He is author or editor of 'The Psalter noted,' 'The Canticles noted,' 'A Manual of Plain Song,' 'A Brief Directory of Plain Song,' 'The Hymnal noted,' 'Carols for Christmas,' 'Carols for Easter,' 'St. Mark's College Chaunt Book,' and 'The Canticles accented,' and translator of Fetis's 'Treatise on Chorus Singing.' He is composer of music for some of Neale's translations of Hymns of the Eastern Church.

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