Blinded in one eye by a child­hood ac­ci­dent, Stain­er served as chor­ist­er at St. Paul’s, and or­gan­ist at the Coll­ege of St. Mi­chael, Ten­bury, and Christ Church, Ox­ford. He found­ed the Ox­ford Phil­har­mon­ic So­ci­e­ty in 1866, was knight­ed in 1888, and be­came a pro­fes­sor of mu­sic at Ox­ford in 1889. His works in­clude:

• Christmas Car­ols, New and Old, with Hen­ry Bram­ley (Lon­don: No­vel­lo, Ew­er & Co., 1871)
• A Theory of Har­mo­ny, 1871
• The Cru­ci­fix­ion, 1887
• The Pre­sent State of Mu­sic in Eng­land (Ox­ford, Eng­land: Hor­ace Hart, 1889)
• Music in Re­la­tion to the In­tel­lect and Emo­tions, 1892
• The Sto­ry of the Cross, 1893

• Frost, p. 691
• Nutter, p. 465

1. Ascendit
2. Author of Life
3. Blessed Home, The
4. Charity
5. Children’s Of­fer­ings
6. Credo
7. Cross of Je­sus
8. Eucharisticus
9. Evening Pray­er
10. Exsurgat De­us
11. Grandpont
12. In Me­mor­i­am
13. Iona
14. Jejunia
15. Jerusalem
16. Jesu Hail! O God Most Ho­ly
17. Laus Ma­tu­ti­na
18. Love Di­vine
19. Lux Prima
20. Magdalena
21. Matrimony
22. Ox­ford
23. Rest
24. Rex Re­gum
25. Sons of La­bour
26. St. Cy­pr­ian
27. St. Fran­cis Xa­vier
28. St. Hill
29. St. Paul’s
30. Stola Re­gia
31. Up in Hea­ven
32. Veni
33. Vesper
34. Virgin Stills the Cry­ing, The
35. Woodlynn