News & Resources
Articles
General
- The music that the Church lost – Rollo Woods
- Introduction to West Gallery Music – Gordon Ashman
- Prayer-Book Parish Churches – Gordon Ashman
- Rules for Singers – Chris Gardner & Helen Mitcham
- Decay in the English Church – Ken Baddley
- The Torrington Diaries – Tony Singleton
- Frances Anne Head and her Choral Psalmody (1840) – Tam Mucklow {member only access}
- The Smithson Manuscript – Francis Roads
Regional
- Thesis: The instrumentation and music of the church choir-band in Eastern England, with particular reference to Northamptonshire, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Stephen Weston (Offsite link)
- Joseph Mainzer – An Itinerant Singing Teacher in Newcastle in the 1840s – Paul Gailiunas
- Church Music in NE Scotland in the 18th and 19th Centuries – David Welch
- Gallery Psalmody in Scottish Kirks – David Welch
- West Gallery Music in Cornwall – Harry Woodhouse
- West Gallery Music in the Isle of Man – Fenella Bazin
- The Musicians of Rossendale – Jean Seymour
- Uriah Davenport and the Psalm Singers of Rushton, Staffs – Nigel Tringham
- Thomas Hawkes of Williton, Somerset – Bob & Jacqueline Patten
- The Carol Books of Thomas Hardy (1778-1837) and Thomas Hardy (1811-1892) – Dr. Clark Kimberling
- The letters of Rev MacDermott – Paula Nicholson {member only access}. More on Rev MacDermott can be found in this article from The Musical Times August 1954 which might also be of interest.
- John Scurr’s Manuscript in Durham Cathedral – Paul Gailiunas {member only access}
- Country Psalmody in Cumbria – A Brief Survey – Paul Guppy {member only access}
Composers
- John Fawcett of Bolton: the Changing Face of Psalmody – Sally Drage
- David Everard Ford – Lyn Law
- William Knapp – Frances Roads
- Thomas Clark of Canterbury – Tony Singleton
- Joseph Key’s Chanting Tunes – Francis Roads
- Samuel Wakely (of Dorset) Revisited – Eve Higgs
Events
- Sussex Harmony 25th Anniversary
- Gordon Ashman retires – an Appreciation
- A “Real history” Wedding – Paul Guppy
- Trafalgar Day Concert in Chatham Dockyard Church – Mike Bailey
- Jane Austen ‘Fayre’ – Charlotte Bailey
- The First Mid-Shires Quires’ Day – Tony Singleton
- Northern Three Quires’ Day 2014 – David Ward
- Rollo Woods 80th Birthday Party – Harry & Margaret Woodhouse
- York Church Crawl 2006 – Paul Emmerson
- WGMA at Sidmouth Folk Week 2006 – Charlotte Bailey