Home   About Us   Announcements   Calendar   Quires   Articles   Publications   Resources   Pictures   Discussion Forum   Links Useful Links Psalters     Hymns and Hymn writers     Churches and Choirs American Hymnody/Shape Note Music Instruments and Bands Traditional Music     Social History and Costume Gallery Music West Gallery Music Association Discussion Forum This is intended for anyone interested in the music, literature and social history of the times - link at the top of the page. The Hymn Tune Index - Professor Nicholas Temperley's database containing all hymn tunes printed anywhere with English-language texts from 1535 to 1820 and their publication history. Roding Music - Francis Roads offers free downloads of West Gallery church music, in the form of either Sibelius Scorch or PDF files. Village Carols - site devoted to carolling traditions. Churches and Choirs West Gallery Churches A pictorial web site created to record the existence and/or history of galleries, two- and three-decker pulpits, box-pews, quires, manuscripts, barrel organs, etc., - anything to do with churches which are known to have, or to have had, connections with West Gallery music and Georgian psalmody. The Churches Conservation Trust The Trust conserves England's most beautiful and historic churches which are no longer needed for regular worship. The Historic Chapels Trust The Trust owns, repairs and maintains historic chapels of outstanding architectural and historic interest. The Gregorian Association Founded in 1870 to promote the study and practice of plainsong. The Oxford Movement Describes the history of the Movement from 1833 to 1845 Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) - an international network of over 9,000 affiliated groups and individual members in over 40 countries throughout the world (interdenominational). Anglican Church Music web site - a central source of information for Anglican and Episcopal church and cathedral music, with resources for church musicians, singers, congregation members, or anyone who enjoys this kind of music. Choirs on the Net - Internet and email listing service for British and International Choirs Hymns and Hymn Writers Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland The HSGBI is interested in historical hymn singing, but also maintains an active interest in modern and contemporary congregational song. Hymnsite.com has a "big search" feature for not only texts on its site, but also on other sites that have provided index information. Christian Classics Ethereal Library - This is an extensive resource with a subsection on hymns and hymnology. Olney Hymns Isaac Watts' - Psalms and Hymns Complete texts of all his psalms and hymns with indexes. John Wesley's Hymns Complete texts Charles Wesley's Biography The Methodist Archives Collection at University of Manchester. William Cowper - Hymns and Poems Philip Dodderidge Psalters, etc Psalms And Psimilar - a site about the singing of psalms, etc, in modern worship, by a WGMA member. Genevan Psalter - Gaelic Psalms (The 'Old Way' of singing psalms) Music for the Church of God (now archived) has links to the following psalters, with many music files as well: Sternhold & Hopkins (Old Version), Tate & Brady (New Version), Isaac Watts, Scottish 1564 / 1635, Bay Psalm Book, Scottish, John Milton, Presbyterian 1887 Ravencroft's Psalter (facsimile) The Whole Booke of Psalmes: With The Hymnes Evangelicall, and Songs Spiritual. [...] (1621) King James Bible - a Search Engine. American Hymnody/Shape-note Music Anthology of The American Hymn-Tune Repertory The Colonial Era to the Civil War - Images from period tunebooks representing first or early printing - with MIDI files to play - and many useful links. United Kingdom Shape-note pages - details of events in the UK. Fasola Home Page - shape-note singing, mostly in the US Traditional Music The Village Music Project - a database of traditional songs and music Folkworks - Workshops, summer schools and festivals that celebrate folk and traditional music, song and dance. The Traditional Ballad Index - Annotated biographies of the Folk Songs of the English Speaking World The Bodleian Broadside Collection Traditional Song Forum The Contemplator's Folk Music Site Social History and Costume The Stillingfleet Tragedy - On Boxing Day,1833, the Stillingfleet church singers were travelling to a church service by boat on the River Ouse, when the boat overturned and 11 of the 14 were drowned. The Georgian Index The Regency Fashion Page The Costume Gallery : The Costume Gallery's guide to the 1700s period fashions including Restoration, Cavalier, Early Georgian, Baroque and Regency, and the 1800s This includes Regency, Romantic, Antebellum, Crinoline, Bustle, and the Gay Nineties or Gilded Age fashion periods. It also includes the Victorian era that begins at the marriage of Queen Victoria Instruments and Bands The Galpin Society - For the study of Musical Instruments The Berkswell 'Cello - A rare 18th century ‘cello recently rediscovered in an ancient Warwickshire church. The Serpent Website The London Serpent Trio The Waits Website - The Official website for the International Guild of Town Pipers All links correct on 19th March 2019 Please report dead links to the webmaster: Home   About Us   Announcements   Calendar   Quires   Articles   Publications   Resources   Pictures   Discussion Forum   Links