ABSTRACT
Samuel Royle Shore was born in Birmingham in 1856, and was by profession a solicitor. The article on Shore was dropped from the most recent edition of Grove. He also engaged in a bitter public debate with Terry about the history of English church music that highlights the importance of sectarian issues in the early revival of this music. The Latinised names of the editors pitched the edition of the Mass directly at the Catholic market, and most of the earliest performances were in the context of the liturgy. The choir of the London Oratory, which had given the first modern performances of the Byrd Mass for four voices in Advent 1890, sang the five-part Mass in Lent and Advent 1900. In 1901, Terry was appointed the first organist and choirmaster at Westminster Cathedral; the foundation stone had been laid in 1895, regular celebrations of mass began in 1903, and the cathedral was finally consecrated in 1910.
