 This series, under the general editorship of W. G. Whittaker, was OUP's first commitment to the publishing of music for performance, rather than in book form or for study.The series plan was expanded by adding the similarly inexpensive but high-quality "Oxford Church Music" and "Tudor Church Music" (taken over from the Carnegie UK Trust); all these series continue today.The scheme of contributed essays Foss had originally brought to Milford appeared in 1927 as the "Heritage of Music" (two more volumes would appear over the next thirty years).