Some of these accounts have been published in Rollo Woods' book Good Singing Still
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS
TEXTS: Psalms vs Hymns | Matching tunes to texts | Carols
Fuguing Tunes
Singing Masters
Who Sings the Air?
There are many more in Newspaper reports - see below
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY - fact and fiction
REMINISCENCES
From American Sources: The Puddleford Papers - H H Riley Early times of Marlborough, Mass. - Mary Ella A. Bigelow Reminscences of old Northampton, Mass. - Henry S.Gere
FICTIONAL REFERENCES
Events | Music | Texts | Instruments | Personalities
AUTHORS
Samuel Butler - The Way of all Flesh
George Eliot - Scenes of Clerical Life
Thomas Hardy
Novels & Short Stories
Absent-mindedness in a Parish Church | Andrey's experience as a musician The Laodician | The Mayor of Casterbridge | The Return of the Native Two on a Tower | Under the Greenwood Tree
Poems
A Church Romance | The Choirmaster's Burial To my Father's Violin | Afternoon Service at Mellstock The Paphian Ball
Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown at Oxford
Washington Irving - Old Christmas
EVENTS
Easter | Whitsun (Club walks) | Harvest | Christmas 1, 2, 3 , 4 | Funerals | Weddings
HYMN and PSALM TEXTS
"Arise and Hail" | "Behold the Morning Star" | "Christians awake" "Hark the Herald Angels sing" | "Rejoice, ye tenants of the earth" "Rejoice, ye drowsy mortals all" | "Star, arise" | "While shepherds watched"1 | 2 The Magnificat Psalm 18 | Psalm 23 | Psalm 53 | Psalm 91 | Psalm 100 Psalm 104 | Psalm 109 | Psalm 128 (Wedding) | Psalm 133
INSTRUMENTS
Barrel-Organ | Bass viol 1 | Bass viol 2 Clarinet 1 | Clarinet 2 | Clarinet 3 Fiddle 1 | Fiddle 2 Harmonium | Serpent
MUSIC
Tunes by name: Cambridge New | Devizes | Lydia | Mount Ephraim (x2) | New Sabbath 1 | 2 | Old Hundredth | Old Wiltshire
PERSONALITIES
Parish Clerk 1 & 2 | neighbour Yeobright | farmer Shiner
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS