HULLAH, JOHN DYKE (1812-1884), English composer and teacher of music, was born at Worcester on June 27. He was a pupil of William Horsley from 1829, and entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1833. He wrote an opera to words by Dickens, The Village Coquettes, produced in 1836; The Barbers of Bassora in 1837, and The Outpost in 1838, the last two at Covent Garden. From 1839, when he went to Paris to investigate various systems of class-teaching in music, he identified himself with Wilhem's system of the "fixed Do," and his adaptation of that system was taught with enormous success from 1840 to 1860. His highly popular compositions consisted mainly of ballads ; but his greatest service to the art was the hard work he did to improve musical education, to secure the performance of good music and maintain high artistic standards. Among his writings may be mentioned his admirable report for the Council of Educa tion on musical education abroad (1878) and his Grammar of Vocal Music (1843) ; and among his other publications, the two great collections of choral music which he made and edited. Part Music and Vocal Scores.