Introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge Part I: A Salute to Life Part II: John Curwen A Short Critical Biography That Great Dust-Heap called 'History' [1992] Historical Research [1992] Count Leo Tolstory: Music Teacher [1980] The Land with Music: Reality and Myth in Music Education [1988] The French Revolution and Music Teaching: A Bicentennial Review [1989] An Excellency in Musick [1957] The Glass Harmonicon Rediscovered [1974] The Miseries of Musick Masters [1986] The Rise of Popular Music Education in Nineteenth-Century England [1986] Plato and Music Today [1981] Onward from Butler: School Music [1985] with a postscript by Walter Heise Freedom and its Price [1989] Some New Music Teaching Devices from France [1961] Curwen, Kodaly and the Future [1979] An Ear for Music [1980] The New Curwen Method: A Partnership of Ear, Eye and Voice [1988] Sol-Fa as an Ethnic Link [1982] The Kodaly Concept and its Pedigree [1990] Cheironomy [1979] Victorian Street Music [1998] The English Promenade Concert [1995-6] Thomas Helmore and the Anglican Plainsong Revival [1959] Notes from Two French Organ Lofts [1961] William Dyce [1964] Walmisley's Psychedelic Magnificat [1980] The Hymn-Singing American [1982] Charity Children: Singing for their Supper [1984] John Jebb [1805-86] and the Choral Service [1986] In Quires and Places Where They Sing: Some Historical Aspects of Anglican Church Music [1995] Review: R.M. Wilson, Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland and America, 1660-1820 [1998]

Bernarr Rainbow [...] was an important figure in English musical life, and it has been well worth while assembling this tribute to his work. [...] the most enjoyable part of this book [...] is 'A Salute to Life', the memoir that Rainbow began to write shortly before he died [...] a real page-turner.