The interest in church music in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Britain was considerable, with the musical press regularly carrying correspondence on a wide range of topics - the training of clergy and musicians, repertoire, organ music and the ordering of churches.   A glance at any modern British hymnal reveals our indebtedness to the authors, translators, editors, composers and arranges of the nineteenth century.  Martin Clarke examines the relationship between musical preferences and religious ideals in church music activity of the period, particularly in respect to hymnody, psalmody and writings in the musical press, in an article that originally appeared in the RCO Journal in 2014.

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