Composers

The Story of the Rediscovery of an Oxfordshire Composer by Sheila Girling Macadam from a presentation to the WGMA gathering, May 2006, revised Nov 2006 At the end of last […]

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

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

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

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

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

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