Brother of Geof­frey Shaw, Mar­tin at­tend­ed the Roy­al Coll­ege of Mu­sic, and lat­er worked in the the­a­ter with Gor­don Craig and Is­a­do­ra Dun­can. He played the or­gan at St. Ma­ry’s, Prim­rose Hill (1908-20), St. Mar­tin-in-the-Fields (1920-4), Ec­cles­ton Guild House (1924-35), and was di­rect­or of m­usic for the Ang­li­can di­o­cese of Chelms­ford (1935-45), and helped found the Pur­cell Op­er­a­tic So­ci­e­ty. In 1924, Shaw be­came one of the first men to broad­cast on the BBC. His works include:

• Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary’s, 1915
• The Prin­ciples of Eng­lish Church Mu­sic Com­po­si­tion, 1921
• Up to Now, 1929, an au­to­bi­o­graphy

• Brink & Pol­man, pp. 180-1
• Erickson, p. 392
• Frost, p. 690

These tunes are reproduced here by kind permission of the Martin Shaw estate.

1. Bromley Com­mon
2. Gentle Je­sus
3. High Road
4. Little Cor­nard
5. Marching
6. Noël Nou­ve­let
7. Purpose
8. Riley
9. Royal Oak
10. Westridge