In 1874, Monk be­came a sing­ing teach­er at King’s Coll­ege. In 1876, he be­came a teach­er at the Na­tion­al Train­ing School for Mu­sic. In 1878, he start­ed teach­ing at Bed­ford Coll­ege. In ad­di­tion, he was mu­sic di­rect­or for al­most four de­cades at St. Mat­thi­as, Stoke New­ing­ton, Lon­don, and was the first mu­sic­al ed­it­or for Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, the his­tor­ic hym­nal which sold 60 mil­lion co­pies. Thom­as Hardy wrote of Monk’s ed­it­ing for Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern:

Stripped of some of your vesture
By Monk or another. Now you wore no frill,
And at first you startled me. But I know you still,
Though I missed the minim’s waver
And the dotted quaver.

• Brown, p. 219
• Colles, Volume III, p. 495
• Frost, p. 683
• Hustad, pp. 288-9
• Nutter, p. 462
• Randel, p. 599
• Stulken, p. 342

1. Aber
2. Alleluia Pe­ren­ne
3. Ascension
4. Ave Ver­um Cor­pus
5. Bede
   • Monk
6. Beverley
7. Bickley
8. Bright and Beau­ti­ful
9. Calvary
10. Cephas
11. Colyton
12. Coronae
13. Crüger
14. Death
15. Ecce Ho­mo
16. Ellacombe
17. Energy
18. Evelyns
19. Eventide
20. Gethsemane
21. Heinlein
22. Innocents
23. Knighton
24. Life and Love
25. Lochbie
26. Melton Mow­bray
27. Merton
28. Milites
29. Miserere
30. Morn­ing
31. Neale
32. Nutfield
33. Oh, the Bit­ter
34. Peterborough
35. Ravenshaw
36. Return
37. Safely, Safely
38. Samuel
39. Sherborne
40. St. Bernard
41. St. Con­stantine
42. St. De­nys
43. St. Eth­el­wald
44. St. Magnus
45. St. Matthias
46. St. Philip
47. St. Sacrament
48. Theodulph
49. Tristes Erant
50. Unde et Me­mor­es
51. Victory
52. Vigilate
53. Waltham
54. Wells
55. Winchester New
56. Wordsworth