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BARNARD, JOHN, English musician, was a minor canon of St. Paul's in the reign of Charles I. He was the first to publish a collection of English cathedral music—The First Book of Selected Church Music (1641). It contains some of the finest 16th-century masterpieces by Tallis, Gibbons, Byrd, Morley and others. The only known complete copy of the book is in the British Museum.