by Paul Guppy Reprinted from an article in West Gallery no.18, January 2001 Background: A Channel 4 researcher telephoned all known West Gallery choirs late in 1998 to ascertain whether they would […]
The “Real History” Wedding Read More »
(Co-founder of the West Gallery Music Association.) He died on Friday 15th August, 2003. WARWICK, October 2001 A presentation was made to our founding Director, Gordon Ashman, of an anthem
by Rachael Jordan, Dave and Jan Green Reproduced from an article in West Gallery no.83 Saturday August 19th dawned fine and bright. We were all set for our grand 25th birthday tour
Sussex Harmony’s Grand Day Out Read More »
by Eve Higgs Reproduced from an article in West Gallery no.86This article should be read in conjunction with the biography of Samuel Wakely on ChoralWiki. The Bridport Connection Samuel was born illegitimately in
Samuel Wakely (1787-1865) revisited (1) Read More »
Francis Roads Chanting tunes are a part of the West Gallery genre that receives scant attention. Apart from London Gallery Quire, I don’t know of any quire that has any
Joseph Key’s chanting tunes Read More »
Tony Singleton To many people, Thomas Clark is no more than a Canterbury boot and shoe maker who wrote the hymn tune “Cranbrook” which was later plagiarized and used for
Thomas Clark of Canterbury, 1775 – 1859 Read More »
by Francis Roads, February 2021 Knapp was certainly the most popular composer of the eighteenth century amongst West Gallery quires. We know this from the many manuscript and printed copies
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by Lyn Law Reprinted from an article in West Gallery No.22 In 1822, David Everard Ford had musical ambitions. Over three hundred subscribers had enabled him to publish a book
David Everard Ford Read More »
Sally Drage [a paper given at the second Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference, held at Durham University in 1999. Published Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies, 2, ed. J. Dibble and B. Zon
John Fawcett of Bolton: the Changing Face of Psalmody Read More »
Abstract In 1799, Thomas Hardy, grandfather of the novelist of the same name, wrote down texts and instrumental bass parts for several Christmas carols. This he continued until the number
The Carol Books of Thomas Hardy (1778-1837) and Thomas Hardy (1811-1892) Read More »
Bob and Jacqueline Patten Reprinted from an article in West Gallery no.2, April 1991. Thomas Hawkes was born at Wiveliscombe, Somerset on 3 November 1786, and as a boy of ten went
Thomas Hawkes of Williton, Somerset Read More »
by Nigel Tringham Reprinted from an article in West Gallery no.5, Summer 1993 The chapelry of Rushton, part of the extensive parish of Leek in the moorlands of Staffordshire, supported a flourishing
Uriah Davenport and the Psalm Singers of Rushton, Staffs Read More »
An introduction to the musicians of Rossendale, Lancashire, active from the 1740s to the 1860s. by Jean Seymour, Conductor of the the Larks of Dean Quire. CONTENTS © Jean Seymour
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Fenella Bazin writes about music in the Isle of Man from the Fifteenth century onwards Before 1400 There is little to show what sort of music was played and sung
Music in the Isle of Man Read More »