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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1The first publication was a musical edition of a church hymnal. This was followed by a Sunday School hymnal.
3In 1874 Rev. Mr. Hutchins started in his church what was probably one of the first vested boy choirs at a period when that was considered next cousin to papacy. He began with a quartet, then a double quartet and finally had a full choir. To supply the need for music he brought over some numbers by local English organists and reprinted them in 1874 under the name, "The Parish Choir." At first the publications were only occasional, not more than fifteen or twenty numbers a year. Gradually within a year or two they became more regular until fifty a year were published.
5When Rev. Mr. Hutchins moved to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1877, he established his own publishing business and organized a boy choir at Grace Church, Medford. Through his weekly publications, which were intended for organists and clergymen, he brought out a total of eighteen hundred vocal octavos of carols, anthems, hymn tunes, Te Deums and communion services until his death in 1919, when regular publication ceased. Occasional numbers have been brought out to the present time. The office is now located at [address hidden]
7Aside from fifty to sixty Americans, the numbers were by English organists and other English composers of sacred music, notably A. H. Brown, C. Simper, J. Stainer and Arthur Sullivan.
9The Parish Choir has also published some of the most widely used musical settings of Episcopal Church hymnals, one in the year 1880, "which left a place hardly filled by its successor given to plain song," 1 another in 1892, extensively used, and one in 1916.
11MCLAUGHLIN & REILLY COMPANY
13"The promulgation of the 'Motu Proprio' of Pope Pius X in 1903 inaugurated a reformation in Catholic music and banned many of the masses of the florid type," 2 which made the publishing of liturgical music for the Catholic service a specialty. The following year (1904) this firm was established as the Liturgical Music Co. at [address hidden] by James M. McLaughlin, Director of School Music in Boston and Dr. James A. Reilly, singer and choirmaster, with the aim of publishing music of the Catholic service and school
151 Statement of William B. Goodwin.
162 Fisher, William Arms. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States p. 126.
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