Music in Cathedrals

I have undertaken a difficult and delicate task, in proposing to read before an important musical body a paper treating of Music in Cathedrals. Difficult, because of the risk one runs in yielding to a temptation to be either historical or polemical; and delicate, as it is almost impossible to speak on the matters necessarily connected with my subject without calling for the assistance of one or both of these qualities in order ‘to point the moral’ or illustrate the remarks I shall have to offer. The difficulty and the delicacy of the subject will be fully understood by those who at any time have been connected with any one of our ancient cathedrals.