West Gallery choirs in Devon
Anthems in Ashburton; Singers’ Feasts
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Deaths of WG musicians
Bass viol players, Derbyshire & Northumberland
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A Winter’s Journey to Preach
Poem describing the experiences of a clergyman visting a rural parish to preach (Billingham, Durham)
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Memories of James Leach
From an article “Roads out of Manchester” by Edwin Waugh published in the Manchester Times, 2nd July 1881.… They were all proud of their relative, James Leach, the composer of the
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Advertisements for Church Music for Country Choirs
Ordered by date of advertisementNOTE: These may not be the first times these collections were published. Title Composer/Compiler Source and date Church Harmony Joseph Stephenson Whitehall Evening Post or London
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Tune in Tenor or Treble?
The reasons for composers’ and compilers’ placing of the air in the tenor in the eighteenth century, and the subsequent change of fashion, may be followed in the following quotation.
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Singing Masters
From Memoirs of P.P., clerk of this parish, quoted in The Music of the English Parish Church by Nicholas Temperley, Cambridge, 1979. “Now was the long expected time arrived, when the psalms of
Objections to Fuguing Tunes
Fuguing tunes often received criticism, such as that from J. I. Cobbin in 1830: “He [the writer] feels satisfied that those catching passages, generally miscalled fugues, and those repeating divisions of lines
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Introduction to R. R. Chope, Carols For Use In Church
(London: William Clowes & Sons), 1894 by S. Baring-Gould We have now dethroned the Metrical Psalms, but we have hardly gone far enough in the direction of hymnody. We want
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Matching Text and Tune
John Peck advised in 1837: The leader should not choose a tune which requires the repetition of some of the words, unless he wish to give emphasis to these particular
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From An Essay on Psalmody (Chapter 6) by Dr. William Romaine
http://www.apuritansmind.com/puritanworship/RomaineWilliamExclusivePsalmody.htm There is another thing relating to the Psalms, I cannot call it an abuse: for it is a total neglect of them. They are quite rejected in many congregations,
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