Alcock (elder and younger), Capel Bond, William Hayes the elder and Samuel Webbe the elder, who all published psalmody books. English country psalmody was exported to America around the mid 18th century, where it inspired the creation of many new compositions by members of the First New England School. Some of these works have remained in use in shape note traditions, for example in the Sacred Harp repertoire. The 4-part, tenor-led harmony, fuguing tunes and anthems and other aspects strongly helped influence the shape note musical tradition, and in many ways the American music style is directly evolved from the older one. Use of west gallery music in the Church dwindled in part due to the rise of urbanization and also due to the desire for more polite, more formal style of worship. This more formal style of worship culminated in the Oxford movement, and eventually the Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Furthermore, the old church bands were often difficult for a vicar to control, while influence over an organist was a much easier task. Such an ousting of the band by an organist is given a fictional treatment in Thomas Hardy’s early novel Under the Greenwood Tree, which reflected actual events at Hardy’s church at Stinsford. Another possible reason for this, is that when the Methodists split from the Anglican church, many of these bands would have been split apart, or even leaving en masse. In 1893, the Reverend Francis William Galpin described the church band at Winterbourne Abbas, which he believed was the last surviving example in England; however two years later, a survey of parishes in Cornwall found that 18 out of 219 churches still had a band. See also Anglican church music Larks of Dean, chapel musicians in 18th & 19th-century Lancashire Sing Lustily and with Good Courage, a recording including west gallery hymns Tate and Brady West gallery composers Thomas Clark John Fawcett Edward Harwood Joseph Nicholds William Tans'ur Aaron Williams Joseph Williams Anne Steele John Arnold (1720–1792), composer who published The Compleat Psalmodist (1741) Composers and compilers in related traditions Robert Bremner, who was influential in mid-18th century Scottish psalmody Charles Woodmason, an Anglican clergyman and tune-book compiler References Temperley, Nicholas (1983) The Music of the English Parish Church. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. . A massive study of both the west gallery tradition and its antecedents, starting from the time of the Reformation.