As an amateur musician, taught by his godfather John Bernard Sale, he joined the Sacred Harmonic Society two years after its foundation in 1832; and in 1853 he was appointed honorary librarian.
Husk held this post until the dissolution of the Society in 1882; its library went to the Royal College of Music.
[1] Husk published a Catalogue with a Preface (1862) of the library of the Sacred Harmonic Society; new edition "revised and greatly augmented", 1872.
He wrote prefaces to the word-books of the oratorios performed at the Sacred Harmonic concerts.
He edited, with notes, Songs of the Nativity; being Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, several of which appear for the first time in a Collection, London, 1868; and contributed to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.