Ut Queant mj273
Malcolm Hill’s cousin, Waller Goodworth, was born in London in 1858 and died in Hastings in 1938. He was an orchestral violinist until a cycling accident crippled his right thumb. He taught at Trinity College of Music in London, where he championed the use of tonic-sol-fa for singing and instituted theory examinations for practical musicians (before the Associated Board introduced their famous Grade 5 theory exams). His main published works, however, were a series of 500-page international touring guides for cyclists which went through several editions between 1890 and 1905; they were published by the Cyclists’ Touring Club, of which he was a founder. The thickly-scored motet Ut queant relates both to tonic sol-far and St. John the Baptist. Only the first phrase survives; the remaining motet was completed by Malcolm Hill.