INDEX OF THE CONTENTS OF "WEST GALLERY"

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE WEST GALLERY MUSIC ASSOCIATION

compiled by Jean Seymour

ALL ITEMS ARE A5 BOOKLETS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

	No.2	No.3	No.4	No.5	No.6	No.7	No.8	No.9	No.10
No.11	No.12	No.13	No.14	No.15	No.16	No.17	No.18	No.19	No.20
No.31	No.32	No.33	No.34	No.35	No.36	No.37	No.38	No.39	No.40
No.41	No.42	No.43	No.44	No.45	No.46

West Gallery No 1: Newsletter of the WGMA - November 1990 - Ed. Gordon Ashman - A4 spiral bound:
14 pages + covers, with separate music supplement: Shropshire Funeral Hymn ("Weep not for me"),
Music: Calcutta, Bonaparte's Air (Ps 99 NV), The Baldon Carol, New Victory.
Letter from England - Stephen Banfield, originally written for the Sonneck Society for American studies - general background to WG music
West Galleries in Royal Dockyards - Philip MacDougall - summary of ongoing research
The Complexities of Copyright - Rollo Woods
Photocopying - A Moral Dimension
Review of Folk on Two - WG Music Weekend - Cindy Sughrue
Notes on the Music Supplement included with the newsletter - Gordon Ashman
A Long Way from England - Rollo Woods - commentary on an Inuit recording from Labrador
The Farmers Toast - Gordon Ashman - commentary on the song printed on old beer mugs
The WGMA and the Data Protection Act - Gordon Ashman
Kilvert and the WG Tradition - Gordon Ashman - relevant extracts from Kilvert's Diary
West Galleries at Petton and North Creake - Gordon Ashman
The Tips of the Icebergs? - Gordon Ashman - thoughts following formation of WGMA
Songs of Praise - Gordon Ashman - commentary following WGMA participation in TV programme
News (and a Job) for Nottingham Members - Gordon Ashman - commentary on recently discovered book of music
WGMA Conference - call for papers
Forthcoming Events

West Gallery No 2: Newsletter of the WGMA - April 1991 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - 10 pages + covers,
Thomas Hawkes of Williton - Bob & Jackie Patten
The Grace Darling Singers - David Ward - account of a practice night + some NW sources
The Music of Thomas Clark - Stephen Weston
The Great Surplice Question - Gordon Ashman - short commentary on the robing of choirs
The Hymn Tune Index - Nicholas Temperley - introducing his major work + reference to tune supplement with No 1
Mr Spectator - Steve Roud - contributor of 1712 letter from complaining clergyman
The Golden Calm - Mary Dalton - contributor of quotation from this work, c. 1840
Stained Glass and Sealing Wax - Caroline Humphreys - archivist and WGMA member
Claire's Quire - Alan Weeks - 1st performance of new WG quire
Lightcliffe Old Church - Gordon Ashman
lronbridge Gathering - Caroline Humphreys - review of most recent weekend gathering
The Sad Tale of Owen Jones Williams - Claire Rowland - biography of a Welsh composer
What Did They Wear? - Gordon Ashman - list of fabrics & garments available in WG period
The Royal School of Church Music - Rollo Woods - WG items in their library

West Gallery No 3: Newsletter of the WGMA - February 1992 Ed: Gordon Ashman - 24 pages + covers,
Separate music supplement: The Good Old Way, Blundell's Plaintive, Bethesda ('Join all the glorious names'), 'Rejoice the Lord is King'
While Shepherds Watched on Ilkley Moor - David Ward - article on Yorkshire tunes to this carol
Book Review - Bands by Trevor Herbert - Gordon Ashman - 19th & 20th century brass bands
The WG Tradition in the Isle of Man - Ed Maddrell
Daily Telegraph 17.12.199O - report of carol singers prevented from celebrating in their own church - by the Vicar!
Obituary - Christopher Monk - Phil & Anne Humphries
Daily Telegraph 2.11.1991 - letter concerning use of sheep as central heating in Welsh chapel
Whither the WGMA? - Gordon Ashman-report of discussion at most recent Ironbridge weekend
West Gallery Folklore - Rollo Woods - some apochryphal stories
Review - The lronbridge Hompipe Ed. G. Ashman - (tune book) - Caroline Humphreys
Lightcliffe Old Chapel Hymnbook - Ed Maddrell - follow-up to article in No 2
West Galleries in Cornwall - Harry Woodhouse - current state of progress of research project

West Gallery No 4: Newsletter of the WGMA - Winter 1992-3 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - 20 pages + covers,
Separate music supplement: New Sabbath, The Downfall of Paris, WSWTFBN from Uriah Davenport's Psalm-Singer's
Companion, facsimile page from 1757 Psalter.
The Mellstock Gallery - David Ward - article on reinstatement of gallery in Stinsford Church
Part Assignment in WG Choirs - Dave Townsend - paper presented at WGMA Conference
West Gallery Bibliography - Steve Fletcher - appeal for information I titles for inclusion
1993 and Beyond - Gordon Ashman - suggestions for the future of WGMA
The Victoria County History - Gordon Ashman - information
Losses and Gains - Gordon Ashman - report of 2 deaths and a birth
Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal - excerpt appropriate to WG
A Prayer in Time of Tumult or War - possibly useful in a period service
Forthcoming Events

West Gallery No 5: Newsletter of the WGMA - Summer 1993 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - 28 pages + covers
Final Spark - Gordon Ashman - anecdote on his offer to sing Vital Spark for Dennis Skinner, MP
What We Did To Wesley - Gordon Ashman - treatment of John Wesley at the hands of the established church
A Receipt to Make Jumballs - a 1767 recipe
Uriah Davenport & the Psalm Singers of Rushton, Staffordshire - Nigel Tringham
Davenport's Music - an anthem (Ps 150) and 2 hymns (Christmas & Easter)
WG Music In Cornwall - Harry Woodhouse - extended article based on his research
Boume on Musical Instruments - Gordon Ashman - some thoughts from the founder of Primitive Methodism
WG Weekend in Chester - Gordon Ashman - promotional article

At this point the Newsletter became a paper publication for a time, initially a folded A3 sheet, later in A5 format, one an 8 page booklet and the remainder a single A4 sheet folded to 4 x A5 pages. It was re-titled WG News and contained notices, forthcoming events, information about recordings and publications, notes and queries etc. Numbering began again at 1. Two copies of the existing A5 booklet West Gallery were published between newsletters and re-designated as the Journal. Numbering continued from the previous multi-page booklets.

WG News No 1 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - February 1994 - A3 sheet folded into 4 x A4 pages

West Gallery No 6: Journal of the WGMA - Spring 1994 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - 20 pp + covers
'Prayer Book' Parish Churches - Gordon Ashman - typical 'post Roman Catholicism' church buildings and layout Location of
'Prayer Book' Churches - Gordon Ashman - map of England and Welsh border + listings by county
The Larks of Dean and Their Music - Jean Seymour - reprint of text from a workshop at the Chester Weekend, concerning the people behind the music in which The Larks of Dean Quire specialises.
Best Hymns are Ancient, not Modern - Daily Telegraph extract concerning hymns in Exeter Cathedral
Jordan - Gordon Ashman requests help in tracking down a hymn
Bright Believing Bands - David Ward - an exploration of why we sing what we sing, and enjoy it!
Northfield - words and music for the popular shape-note hymn
Priest Pleads for Still Small Voices - another Daily Telegraph extract

WG News No 2 Ed: Gordon Ashman - September 1994 - A3 sheet folded into 4 x A4 pages

West Gallery No 7: Journal of the WGMA - Spring 1994 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - 20 pp + covers
Can a Dance Survive for 1,200 Years? - Alan Nowell - The Wyresdale Greensleeves Dance, following reference
to it at an Ironbridge weekend
Greensleeves - the version of the tune used for the above dance
Yes, but where is Greensleeves' mate? - Gordon Ashman - thoughts on the origins of the song
Music - Hymn 588: John Hall I Charles Wesley
- Jordan following the request in No.6
Bass Viol or Cello - And Does it Matter? - Gordon Ashman - 4 pages inc. diagrams, further page of illustration + refs
Faith and West Gallery Music - Bernard Collard - discourse on whether we believe what we sing

WG News No 3 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - February 1995 - A5 booklet of 8 pages
WG News No 4 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - September 1995 - A4 sheet folded into 4 x A5 pages
WG News No 5 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - January 1996 - A4 sheet folded into 4 x A5 pages
WG News No 6 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - May 1996 - A4 sheet folded into 4 x A5 pages
WG News No 7 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - October 1996 - A4 sheet folded into 4 x A5 pages

The A5 multi-page booklet West Gallery was then reinstated as the Newsletter under a new editor. Numbering continued with Number 8 following on from the last Journal, Number 7.

West Gallery No 8: Newsletter of the WGMA - Spring 1997 - Ed: Brian Fisk - 36 pages + covers
Decay In the English Church: The Rise & Fall of the West Galleries - Ken Baddley
Book review: The Singing Seat - Fenella Bazin - WG music from Catsfield, Sussex
'Left-footers' in the West Gallery - Mary & Sydney Hemsley - transcript of a talk given at the Exeter weekend - 'left-footers' is a Protestant term for Roman Catholics
Copyright - Brian Fisk - history of relevant legislation
CD Review: Vital Spark Present Vital Spark - Ken Baddley
Beer for the Ringers, Malt and Hops for the Singers - Lyn Law - St Thomas's Church, Lymington, inc. extracts from Churchwardens' accounts
Costume - the Experience of the Thomas Clark Quire - Jan Wilson & Helen Mitcham - useful tips for quires who
like to dress up
In Brief - notes and queries etc
The Alto's Lament - anonymous poem contributed and slightly amended by Jean Seymour
The Colby Manuscripts - Francis Roads - WG music from the Isle of Man
Madding Crowd Annual Party - Pat Williams - account of festive fun and frolics
Early Music Forum Psalmody Workshops - Sally Drage
Review: WGMA Winter Meeting at Sheffield - Ken Baddley
Letter - Gordon Ashman explains his handing over of various sets of WG reins
Diary Dates

West Gallery No 9: Newsletter of the WGMA - Winter 1997-8 - Ed: Brian Fisk - 23 pages + front cover
Called To Be Saints - Janet Salway - details of a new quire
Review: Grenoside (Sheffield) Weekend - Mike Spittal
Many Thanks - Gordon & Isabella Ashman express gratitude for continued support
Instrumentation & Music of the Church Choir-Band in Eastern England, with particular reference to Northamptonshire, during the late 18th and early 19th Centuries - Stephen Weston - brief description of his thesis, deposited at Leicester University Library
WGMA mailing list on the Internet - some recent postings, edited by Brian Fisk - contributions from Steve Fletcher, Christopher Densmore (USA), Arlie Prokop (USA), Bernard Collard, Tony Singleton, Francis Roads, Sue Glover and Dick Wolff. Bernard and Tony each wrote a review of the WG weekend at Bishop's Cleeve.
With a Little Help from our Friends in the North - Sheila Smith - Sussex Harmony concert raises query about dimly remembered WG-style tune sung in Lancs, later identified as Dorset tune, leading to musings on tune-travel.

Gordon Ashman then edited one further issue before Jean Seymour took over

West Gallery No 10: Newsletter of the WGMA - Spring 1998 - Ed: Gordon Ashman - 28 pages + covers
The Rise & Fall of WG Musicians in Wiltshire - Alan Dodge
Book Review: Face the Music: Church & Chapel Bands in Cornwall by Harry Woodhouse - Ken Baddley
Anniversaries 1998 - Sally Drage on this year's opportunities to celebrate 100th, 150th & 200th dates of some
WG composers and Isaac Watts
Manchester - CM hymn tune
Clacton 1997 - Sally Drage reviews the 2nd Conference on Georgian Psalmody
Going Plygain - Gordon Ashman - a Welsh singing tradition
Various 'notes and queries'
Musical References and Anti-Methodist Feeling in Paupers and Pig-Killers - the Diary of William Holland, a Somerset Parson, 1799 - 1818 - Jean Seymour
The WG Harmony Book - News and Plans - Gordon Ashman on the publication of Book 2, (Carols) and possible reprint of Book 1 (Psalms & Hymns)
Review: Brightest and Best (Village Carols from Beeston) - Gordon Ashman
Internet Snippets - contributed by Judy Whiting

West Gallery No 11: Newsletter of the WGMA - Autumn 1998 - Ed: Jean Seymour- 32 pages + covers
Isaac Watts - A Brief History - David Stow
Billings on the Fourth of July - David Ward - review of a singing-day
Reviews: Hymns for Ascension Day - Richard Leach - 3 Charles Wesley facsimile publications
Hymn for Whitsunday
Hymns on the Great Festivals and Other Occasions
Deja Vu, Already - Alan Weeks - some thoughts on the origins of the term West Gallery
WG Scores for Workshops - Francis Roads - with examples of music
Wand'ring Cisterns in the Sky - Eileen Wilson reports on the annual tour of Called To Be Saints
Old Goodshaw Chapel Anniversary - Terry Savage
Nothing New There Then - Sue Glover finds a 12th century criticism of singers
Revival at St Botolph's - Francis Roads - tongue-in-cheek account of imaginary WG performance
WG Choirs - Evidence from Lucy Broadwood's Letters - Lewis Jones
Selected comments from George Gay's preface to Sacred Music - supplied by Ros Clements
The Parson's Pleasance by P H. Ditchfield - Jean Seymour - extracts, with linking commentary
News from the North East - Chris Gardner reports on a recent performance by Joyful Noise
Caption Competition
Quire News I Diary Dates

West Gallery No 12: Newsletter of the WGMA - Winter 1998 - Ed: Jean Seymour- 28 pages + covers
Review: lronbridge 1998 - Ken Baddley
An Alternative Method of Indexing Themes - Francis Roads - i.e. an alternative to Nicholas Temperley's system
Letters to the Editor
Serpents at Sidmouth - Craig Kridel - a US member's view, originally written for US readers
Review: Memoirs of a Primitive Methodist - Henry Green (1855-1932) Ed. Dr Winifred Stokes - Ken Baddley
Notes and Queries
Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? - Rollo Woods - Snippet with 2-verse improvised hymn by Charles Wesley, set to a secular tune
O, What a Glorious Storm We Then Espied - some notes on Bishop's Cleeve - Stephen Jones
Church Basses in New England - contributed by Julian Pilling - short extract from US book
Caption Competition
Two Memorials from Norwich Cathedral - contributed by Gordon Ashman
Advent Calendar of a WG Junkie - Francis Roads details his recent punishing schedule
Review: Festival of Village Carols (Sheffield 1998) - Thelma Wright
A Georgian Evensong in Norfolk - Ros Clements - report of a recent event where London Gallery Quire combined with local (Norfolk) choir / musicians / congregation
Quire News I Diary Dates

West Gallery No 13: Newsletter of the WGMA - Spring 1999 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 28 pages + covers
Membership Survey - Gordon Ashman outlines history of WGMA to date and introduces forthcoming survey
Directory Additions and Amendments
How Typical a Parish Clerk? - Ros Clements selects from The Works of Alexander Pope
Judge Me, O Lord - Francis Roads contributes a tune from a Manx manuscript for Ps 26 NV
Reviews: The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study by Richard Watson - Robin Leaver
West Gallery Music - Vol 1: General Service Music compiled & edited by Francis Roads - Jean Seymour The Ubiquitous
Isaac watts - The Madding Crowd's 250th Anniversary Concert - Ken Baddley
Quire News I Diary Dates
Copyright - Francis Roads explains the position as he understands it
The Venue from Hell - Don Grimshaw describes a recent Madding Crowd concert
Military Band Instruments in the WG Period - Gordon Ashman
Curious Cuttings - contributed by Jean Seymour and James Forsyth
Miserable Dumbledores? - Rollo Woods describes the restored barrel organ in Steeple, Dorset
Notes and Queries

West Gallery No 14: Newsletter of the WGMA - Autumn 1999 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 32 pages + covers
From the Secretary - Jackie Patten gives advance notices, Directory amendments etc
Letter to the Editor
Three Harks and a Bostoff - Gordon Ashman on a Shropshire version of Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, to the tune Snedshill Forge (with music)
Review: Repeat their Sounding Joy - The Gladly Solemn Sound CD - Ken Baddley
The Flight (and Robson) of the Bumblebee - Christopher Turner on barrel organs
What's in a Name? - Alan Weeks - a multitude of tunes named Exeter
WGMA Balance Sheet for 1998 - Alan Weeks
Norumbega Harmony Celebrates Isaac Watts - Bruce Randall describes an anniversary sing in Boston, Mass.
Singing at Gwehelog - Ken Baddley reports on a singing-day in his Welsh village
Familiar Tunes Herald in Christmas - Mike Silkstone - article on carolling in Yorkshire, reprinted from The Dalesman, Dec 1995
Carolling in 18th & 19th Century Kent - George Frampton
Composing for the Gallery - Francis Roads on his recent WG-style compositions
In Thee I Put My Steadfast Trust - Francis Roads' tune Lewes set to Ps7l NV
David Turton, Musician at Horbury - Sally Drage contributes extracts from Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents & Strange Events by Baring-Gould
Anecdotes Concerning Three Essex Composers - Peter Goodwin
Quire News

West Gallery No 15: Newsletter of the WGMA - January 2000 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 32 pages + covers
WGMA Goes North - review by Alan Weeks of Durham Weekend, Oct 99
WG at Whitby - review by Tim Hudson of workshops at Whitby Folk Festival Aug 99
Carols in August - review by Penny Rowlinson of workshops at Sidmouth Folk Festival 99
Publication Review: Georgian Psalmody 2 + Music Supplement from 2nd Clacton conference, by Jackie Patten
The Old Way of Singing - a late example - Stephen Woods
Letters to the Editor
A Selection of Epitaphs - contributed by Sally Drage
Leading WG Music - hints for potential conductors from Francis Roads
Ps 136 NV to Ralph Harrison's Greenwich - setting by Francis Roads _
Telegraph Does It Again - some recent reports of WGMA interest, discussed by Jean Seymour
The Village Music Project - Cherri Graebe describes research project + seeks help in identifying some psalm tunes
Notes and Queries
Quire News

West Gallery No 16: Newsletter of the WGMA - May 2000 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Administration of the WGMA - Gordon Ashman explains his current situation
From the Secretary - Jackie Patten re subscriptions, BBC Music Live, Sweatshirts, Workshop Leaders list
Obituary: Mary Dalton - Gordon and Isabella Ashman
Vaughan Williams, Thomas Hardy & Village Church Psalmody - Alan Dodge - reprinted from Journal of RVW Soc
Saving the Henry Watson Library - Sally Drage discusses threatened closure of this important Manchester resource
The "Real History" Wedding - Paul Guppy describes Gladly Solemn Sound's participation in TV 1840s wedding
Letters to the Editor
Review: Mellstock Band - The Dance at the Phoenix - Mike Bailey
WGMA Balance Sheet for 1999 - Alan Weeks
Quire News
The Chorister's Confession - Stephanie Brown contributes anonymous pastiche of Prayer Book General Confession
Workshop in Aberdeen, Feb 2000 - David Welch
Serendipity in Cyber Space, and my Junk Room - David Stow on finding Sweet Zion Bells in both those places -
+ music
Halsway, February 2000 - Don Grimshaw reports on Madding Crowd's annual party weekend
The Mass House Quire - Chris Gardner on WG period singing by Roman Catholics, focusing on Claughton Chapel
Alternative Seating for the Quire - snippet from Sally Drage describing Methodist cottage-chapel in Bolton, Lancs
Notes and Queries
A Musical Joke - Lewis Jones
WGMA Autumn Weekend, Stamford - advance notice

West Gallery No 17: Newsletter of the WGMA - September 2000 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
The Future of the WGMA - statement by Advisory Group
WG Music Invades America - Bruce Randall talks about his WG workshops and quire in New England
In Search of the Perfect Fiddle - Cherri Graebe describes the renovation of an 18th century instrument
Old Goodshaw Chapel Sermons - David Welch describes his visit in July 2000
A Load of Bulls - apocryphal bull / music stories contributed by Brenda Neece
Rules of Kenardington Psalm Singers - Helen Mitcham compares rules for Kentish Anglicans with those for Lancs
Roman Catholics at Claughton
Review: Ironbridge 2000 - Don Grimshaw - includes photograph of double-length serpent
Letters to the Editor
A Different Slant on a Familiar Subject - David Stow on replacement of church band by organ, against wishes of
Music: Psalm 97 OV to Daventry Minister; Psalm 98 NV to St Stephen
Notes and Queries
Afloat on a Sea of Music - reprint of David Ward's article in The Guardian about The Grace Darling Singers
The Earl and the Stonemason - Ian Meddoms gives background to forthcoming Methodist Bicentennial in Warwick
The Village Choir - anonymous pastiche on The Charge of the Light Brigade contributed by Mike Bailey
Affordable Music Software - Ken Baddley compares currently available programs
Call to Quires to participate in Trafalgar Night concert at Chatham Dockyard Church - Stephen Jones
Quire News / Diary Dates

West Gallery No 18: Newsletter of the WGMA - January 2001 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
From the Secretary - Jackie Patten re subscriptions, WGMA weekends, promoting WGMA, sweatshirts,
Directory amendments
WGMA Questionnaire Results - Gordon Ashman analyses recent survey of members
Review: Praise & Glory - Francis Roads assesses the new WGMA psalter
Chevening Singers 1: Earl Stanhope 0 - Helen Mitcham on strained relationships between 18th C singers & gentry
Reports of Events:   Sidmouth Folk Festival - Alan Weeks
  Beaminster Gallery Quire concert - Alan Weeks
  WG Workshop, Ebchester - Paul Gailiunas
  WGMA Weekend, Stamford - Alan Weeks
  Trafalgar Day concert, Chatham - Mike Bailey
  Festival of Village Carols, Sheffield - Sheila Smith and Edwin Macadam
The Cornish Carollers - Dudley Currah focuses chiefly on Thomas Merritt and Cornwall / Australia connections
Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk after hearing him sing Psalms - derogatory 17th C verse contributed by Sally Drage
Quire News
Notes and Queries

West Gallery No 19: Newsletter of the WGMA - May 2001 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 32 pages + covers
A West Gallery Treasure - Elizabeth Raymont writes about a family Prayer Book with Old Version metricated psalms
In Search of John Smeeton - Jean Seymour responds to a query about music on a Leicestershire gravestone
Reviews and Reports - Praise & Glory: Edward Whickham
Event Reports:
  Sacred Harp Sing & WG Church Tour in the NE, March 2001 - Rita Powell
  Warwick the Sing-Maker: Alan Weeks reports on Methodist Bicentennial celebrations
Pronouncement from Methodist Annual Conference, Sheffield 1805 - contributed by Sheila Smith
19th C hymn by John Mason Neale - (words only) relevant to current foot & mouth disease crisis
WG period instruments - Arlie Prokop's photographs of displays at St Fagan's Museum, Cardiff
Letters to the Editor
Church Music in Kent, 1847 - contributed by Sally Drage
WG Costume, then and now - Maggi Adams comments on decisions about what to wear
On the Street Sellers of 2nd-hand Musical Instruments - from London Labour & the London Poor; contributed by Antonina Spittal
Religious Intolerance in 1805 - a further contribution by Sheila Smith, taken from The Methodist Magazine
John Sivewright - A Scottish Singing Master - David Welch
Quire News
Notes & Queries

West Gallery No 20: Newsletter of the WGMA - September 2001 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
WGMA Committee election results
What a Joyful Noise! - Alan Weeks reports on a singing day at Gibside Chapel, Northumberland
Bad Singing Still - Chris Gardner comments on historical and recent opinions about singing in churches
More WG Treasure - Harry Woodhouse follows up on Elizabeth Raymont's article in issue 19
From Our Antipodean Correspondent - James Forsyth reports on a WG concert in New South Wales, Australia
Averil Cakes - Ken Baddley tries out a recipe for funeral cakes
Thomas Turner of East Hoathly - Ken Baddley explores details recorded by a village undertaker in Sussex
Ushaw College - Alan Weeks on a day spent exploring the musical archives of this former RC seminary
Where Can I Find WG Material? Part I - Recordings - a listing of WG resources by Tony Singleton
Music: "Blow ye the trumpet, blow" to Rotherhithe, transcribed by Francis Roads
Event Reports: Old Goodshaw Chapel Sermons - David Welch on the July 2001 annual service in Lancashire
WGMA Ironbridge weekend - John Miles on the May 2001 sessions
A Witham Choir Book - Peter Goodwin explores an Essex manuscript
New WG Churches Website - Edwin Macadam and Sheila Girling Smith announce their new site
A Timely Extract - Sue Glover contributes a post-election amusing extract from John Brand's Popular Antiquities
Letters to the Editor
Televised Matins from Norwich - Chris Gutteridge describes the experience of recording a Georgian Matins
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No 21: Newsletter of the WGMA - January 2002 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Once More unto the Breeches - Helen Mitcham describes how to adapt trousers into breeches
What Did They Wear? - Gordon Ashman provides a stock list of fabrics and sundries from a Ludlow warehouse 1775
A Spate of Singing Lofts - David Welch provides information and illustrations of some Scottish west galleries
Event Reports:
  WGMA Weekend, Warwick Oct 2001 - Mike Spittal
  WG workshops at Whitby Folk Week, August 2001 - Tim Hudson
Review: Vital Spark CD - There Were Shepherds - Mike Walker
Where Can I Find WG Material? Part 2 - Books - a listing of WG resources by Tony Singleton
The Ephraim Watson Manuscript - update on the WGMA publication from Isabella Ashman
Once in a Blue Moon - Maggi Adams reports on the first of an occasional series of singing days
The Nature and Excellence of Music - Sally Drage contributes part of a sermon preached in Suffolk in 1787
Psalms Against the Plague - Alan Weeks draws to our attention a 500 years old musical celebration of delivery from the pestilence in Pforzheim, Germany
Letters to the Editor
Tell me the Old, Old Story? - Linda Hall offers some 19th century comments from the clergy, and lists references to galleries in various publications
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No 22: Newsletter of the WGMA - May 2002 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Obituary: Christopher Turner - Peter Holman
WGMA Past, Present & Future - Jackie Patten
Book Review: Celestial Anthems - Poems by John Cennick - Rollo Woods
Tips on Conducting - Mike Bailey
A demanding job description - Chris Gardner contributes a historic but undated advertisement for a conductor
22 Tunes and a Hermit - Paul Guppy explores a Cornish manuscript
David Everard Ford - Lyn Law explores the man behind an 1822 psalm & hymn tune collection
St Mary's, Sunbury-on-Thames - Linda Hall looks into the history of a formerly-galleried church
Jonathan Ryle's Music Books & Congregationalist Hymnody - Win Stokes on a Durham musician at the turn of the 18th/19th century. One of his tunes, Prudhoe, is included.
Christmas Music Workshop, Gainford, December 2001 - report by Ed Maddrell
Strings for Fiddles, and Foulmarts' Heads - Chris Gardner writes about some of his finds in Durham County Record Office
Letters to the Editor
Quire News and Diary Dates
Poems: To Mr Knapp, on his "New Church Melody" - from the preface to "NCM" 2nd Edition, via Sally Drage
A Church Romance - Thomas Hardy, contributed by Linda Hall

West Gallery No 23: Newsletter of the WGMA - September 2002 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
(erroneously numbered 24)
Advance notice of WGMA October 2003 weekend in Ambleside - Alan Weeks
Hymn Tune Index on the Internet - Nicholas Temperley
Strict Baptists: A Riposte - Chris Gardner forwards a response to the job ad. in number 22
The WG Wedding of the Century - Jenny Ellis reports on the recent Macadam nuptials
... and a personal message from the bride and groom - the Macadams respond
More Galleries Past & Present - a further selection from Linda Hall
The Ironbridge Experience - Alan Weeks reports on the May 2002 WGMA weekend
Coincidences, Contradictions & Confusion in Norfolk - Chris Gutteridge describes his searches and researches for manuscripts and instruments, including serpents and an iron cello
The Robert Waller Manuscript - Francis Roads discusses the Norfolk ms referred to by Chris Gutteridge
An Effusive Sermon - Sally Drage contributes an extract from a 1724 sermon which offers very over-the-top comments on music in divine worship
Some Reminiscences on Keith Singers - David Welch on the church musicians in a small Banffshire town
Blackshawhead Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Band - Leslie Morgan looks into the history of this chapel near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Quire News and Diary Dates
WG & Sacred Harp singing dates and contacts

West Gallery No 24: Newsletter of the WGMA - Winter 2002/3 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
(numbered 24A in view of the above error in 23)
John Wesley Tercentenary - Ken Baddley offers advice and content suggestions to those planning events in 2003
Sir John Hawkins: Burn His History! - Mike Bailey belatedly reviews an edition from 1875 of a 1776 publication; A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
Cornish Carolling / That Bugbear, Boxing Day - Alan Seymour and Jackie Patten respectively contribute these 19th century views of festive singing
Come and Worship - Paul Gailiunas gives information about this carol and its appearances in print
Doctor in the Gallery - Francis Roads describes the long slog towards his recent PhD award
Letters to the Editor
Alcwyn Evans MS in Carmarthen Archives - Mike Bailey gives details of a manuscript worthy of study
Book Review: West Gallery Christmas Music from Northamptonshire by Stephen Weston - Jean Seymour
Event Reports:
  WG at Whitby Folk Festival, August 2002 by Tim Hudson
  Festival of Village Carols, Grenoside, November 2002 by Mike Spittal
  London Gallery Quire's Church Crawl, September 2002 by Alan Weeks, augmented by John Miles
  WGMA Weekend, Symonds Yat, October 2002 by Terry Savage
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No 25: Newsletter of the WGMA - Spring 2003 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 32 pages + covers
Obituary: Roy Cavie - Tony Singleton
Elias Hall & the Development of WG Music in Oldham - Sally Drage
Events Reports: Blaydon workshop and Evensong, 15/16 February 2003 - Alan Weeks
Goring workshop and Evensong, 2 February 2003 - Tony Singleton
Skipton workshop and Evensong, 2 March 2003 - Pat Schofield
The Larks of Dean Quire and the Tuesday Occasionals in Concert - David Stow
Letters to the Editor
Editing for Mainstream Choirs - Francis Roads on making WG music accessible to non-specialists
Music: Ps 122 NV by Thomas Clark, edited by Francis Roads
John Beaumont: First Preacher-Musician - Chris Gardner presents a 1943 account of the life and music of a Yorkshire Methodist
More Gallery Info - Linda Hall builds on her previous catalogues of extant and former galleries
Vital Spark Down Under - Stella Hardy finds Pope's Ode quoted on a New Zealand memorial
Quire News & Diary Dates

West Gallery No 26: Newsletter of the WGMA - Summer 2003 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Obituary: Chris White - Helen Mitcham
More on John Wesley and Music - Sally Drage adds to the information given by Ken Baddley in issue No 24A
Music: Dartford (anon)
Good Health is Next to Godliness - Jean Seymour selects some of John Wesley's favourite remedies and treatments
The Purdys: Links with Wesley and the WGMA - Ken Baddley sets down his remarks from Ironbridge 2003
Music: Cornish or Weston Favel by Victory Purdy
Letters to the Editor
Monymusk Psalmody Workshop, February 2003 - report by David Welch
Music: Westminster by John Wesley, words by Charles Wesley
Immanuel's Ground at Warwick - Ken Baddley reports on a "Churches Together in Warwick" Songs of Praise service
WGMA Recording at Halsway Manor - Maggi Adams reports on the laying down of tracks for a WGMA CD
Ironbridge Weekend 2003 - Alan Weeks reports on the WGMA spring gathering
Quire News and Diary Dates
Extract: Hind's Annals of Bedale - contributed by Sally Drage

West Gallery No 27: Newsletter of the WGMA - Autumn 2003 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Obituary: Gordon Ashman - Mike Bailey
Gordon Ashman & the WGMA - Dave Townsend
Gordon Ashman Remembered - Ian Russell
A Personal Memoir - Sheila and Edwin Macadam
Thanksgiving Service for Gordon - Isabella Ashman
A Church Behind its time - Jean Seymour comments on Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingthorpe
Bedford Gallery Quire Inaugural Meeting - Alan Weeks
The Importance of Proof-Reading - genuine church 'bulletin bloopers' contributed by Judy Whiting
Event Reports:
  Charity Sing in the NE - Janet Purdy on an event for Cancer Relief in memory of Chris Whiting
  Mow Cop Anniversary Service - Sally Drage on this year's annual service at the home of Primitive Methodism
  WG at Sidmouth Folk Festival - Alan Weeks
  WGMA Research Seminar, Liverpool - Jean Seymour on this the 1st annual event
  WG at Whitby Folk Festival - Tim Hudson
Victorian Baroque: the Idiom of the West Gallery - Francis Roads' illustrated talk to the Royal College of Music
Two Happy Accidental Finds:
(1) Uproar in Liskeard Church (1832) - contributed by Alan Seymour
(2) Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society - Olga Shotton contributes a newspaper report of an after-dinner talk on 'old village music', to be published in The Musical Times April 1923

William Jackson of Exeter - Alan Weeks reports on an Exeter Festival fringe concert featuring this WG composer
Hymn Raising in the Isle of Man - Fenella Bazin reports on an interesting custom still extant on the island
Quire News
Forthcoming Quire-Organised Events
Singing Dates

West Gallery No 28: Newsletter of the WGMA - Winter 2003/4 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Obituaries: Gordon Ashman(1) Dave Townsend, reprinted from The Guardian 6.10.03
(2) John Powell, reprinted from Friends of Ironbridge Gorge Museum newsletter. Autumn 03

Memorial Verse for Gordon Ashman - Gordon Hindley
Letters to the Editor
Redressing the Balance - Rollo Woods summarises 2 sources (1921 and 1923) complimentary to village WG quires
The Fall of Eve - Chris Gutteridge describes 2 recent WG musical experiences involving his band and singers
Event Reports:
  Workshop and Service, Blyth - Ros Clements
  London Gallery Quire Church Crawl - Alan Weeks
  Joyful Noise Lanchester Weekend - Paul Emmerson
  The Great Salvation Workshop Day - Mike Walker
  WG Weekend, Rydal Halll - Mike Spittal
Some Christmas Memories - Chris Gardner contributes a lively account of Doing the Rounds in a 19th century Durham mining village, as set down in True Stories of Durham Pit-Life (1911)
A Country Celebration of the Wesley Centennial - Fenella Bazin describes how the Methodists of Bride, the most northerly village in the Isle of Man, celebrated the event
And to round off the Wesley tercentenary year - Janet Salway contributes a 'curate's egg' comment on Wesley's
influence (complimentary) and Methodist tunes (anything but)
WG Music in Boston Massachusetts - Francis Roads reports on his workshop across the pond
Quire News

West Gallery No 29: Newsletter of the WGMA - Spring 2004 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 32 pages + covers
The Lindsey Melodies - Edmund Gooch analyses a Lincolnshire music book
CD Review: Ghosts and Lovers by the Mellstock Band - Peter and Wendy Carnell
Singing in the Village Choir - Julian Pilling responds to Francis Roads' article Victorian Baroque in West Gallery 28
Thomas Moore's Pocket and Delightful Companions - David Welch considers two 18th century Scottish collections of psalms
Workshop Banana Skins - Francis Roads warns of some pitfalls that can plague workshop leaders
Letters to the Editor
To Gallery Singers by Rowland Hill (1744-1833) - Sally Drage contributes this poem which criticises the gallery singers of his time
The Madding Crowd's house party at Halsway Manor, as seen by Don Grimshaw
A (Francis) Roads Show - Stella Hardy reports on a Roads workshop where she meets a long-lost relative
To Mr Knapp, on his New Church Melody - Sally Drage contributes verses from the preface to Knapp's publication
Quire News and Diary Dates
Two Interesting Epitaphs: (Michael Turner and John Roberts) - contributed by Jean Seymour and Tricia Guy

West Gallery No 30: Newsletter of the WGMA - Summer 2004 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Event Reports:
  SW Quires Day - Terry Savage
  WGMA Weekend, Horncastle - John Miles
  Wealden Church Crawl - Tony Singleton
  Mid-Northumberland Church Tour - Alan Weeks

A Singular Instance of Sagacity in a Dog - Ken Baddley contributes an amusing letter from the Methodist Magazine, 1809, detailing an incident from 50 years earlier.
Clefs and Conservatism - Edmund Gooch offers some notes on allocation of parts, use of clefs, and domestic performance from Samuel Webbe jr, and on the Morning and Evening Service (1795) by Rev Wm Jones
William Byrd's Reasons briefely set down by th'author, to perswade Everyone to learne to sing (1588) - Norman Johnson contributes these 8 pearls of wisdom
Heavy Editing - Francis Roads explains his reasons for sometimes 'improving upon' music found in mss.
When is a Chorister not a Chorister? - Chris Gardner contributes a letter of 1796 concerning the choristers at Bath Abbey, who were provided by the Blue Coat Charity School
Letters to the Editor
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No 31: Newsletter of the WGMA - Autumn 2004 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 32 pages + covers
Letters to the Editor
West Gallery at Whitby Folk Week - Tim Hudson reports
West Gallery Music in the West - Bruce Randall reports on his Minneapolis workshop - 6 time-zones west of the UK!
Book Review: Is that the right tune? by Brian F. Spinney - Mike Bailey reviews this "exploration into the sources and settings of texts and tunes used in English hymnody".
Two Scottish Psalm-Tune Composers - Katie Bishop discusses Dr Andrew Mitchell Thompson (St George's, Edinburgh) and Robert Archibald Smith (Invocation) - includes facsimile prints of the two named tunes.
Competition with Angels in Cells of Poverty - Chris Gardner on Blanchland Church in 1776.
A Cynic's View of Singers - Sally Drage contributes a couplet by Coleridge in answer to that by Byrd in No 30.
A Contemporary View of Instrumental Accompaniment - Francis Roads comments on a statement by Thomas Shoel in The Chearful Psalmodist (1809)
A Fortunate Discovery - Tim Henderson on Haweis's tune Aldwinkle, with two versions of the music
Trouble at the Top - Sally Drage contributes examples of rebellious 17th C choirs in Lincoln and Durham Cathedrals
A Note on Cornish Funerals - contributed by Rollo Woods
A Lancashire Tale - Alan Seymour contributes an amusing story: Country Choristers by Ben Wood
Sketches of Gainford Church - Paul Gailiunas supplies two pages from a mid-19th century sketchbook
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No 32: Newsletter of the WGMA - Winter 2004/5 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Death Announcement: Ian Ashley of the John Moore Quire - Rita Powell
Obituary: David Spencer of Immanuel's Ground - Ian Meddoms
Event Reports:
  Oxford Church Crawl - Alan Weeks
  Workshop and Harvest Evensong - Chris Gardner
  WG Singing in Minnesota - Chris Brown
  WGMA Weekend, Ironbridge - Alan Weeks
  WGMA Composers' discussion at Ironbridge Weekend - Mike Bailey
  6th Festival of Village Carols, Grenoside - Mike Spittal

The Odcombe Carols - Brian Frosdick on the history of the carolling tradition in a Somerset village, and its recent new lease of life
Are we missing something? - Francis Roads evangelises for the inclusion of more plain and 3-part tunes, more anthems and other through-composed pieces, to balance the apparent popular preference for fuguing tunes. Includes a 3-part plain setting of Psalm 133
More Directions for Instrumental Accompaniment from the Prefaces of Early 19th Century Collections - Edmund Gooch adds to the topic explored by Francis Roads in issue no. 31
Ranters in Old Weardale - Chris Gardner contributes an extract from Fordyce's The History And Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham (1857)
The Choral Singer's Guide to Keeping the Conductor in Line - Sally Drage contributes a tongue-in-cheek list
from an article in The Singer
CD Review: Glad Tidings - Bob Schofield reviews the latest offering from The Mellstock Band
"Hark! Hark! What News..." - Rollo Woods suggests a different interpretation of extant information on this carol
Cals for the Scowl-Master and Candles for Singers - Chris Gardner explores the churchwardens' accounts from St Mary's Church, Gainford, Co. Durham
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 33: Newsletter of the WGMA - Spring 2005 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 32 pages + covers
Sidmouth 2005 is definitely happening - Mike Bailey reports on WG provision at the new-style Folk Festival
Letters to the Editor
West Gallery Music in Cornwall - Harry Woodhouse reports in close detail on his project to put all the available West Gallery music in Cornwall onto CD-ROM, for the benefit of WGMA members
Good Homes Wanted For Stray Basses - Paul Guppy asks for help in identifying some bass parts from a MS
CD Review - Ken Baddley reviews The Madding Crowd's recording, Hark, Shepherds, Hark
Reverend Surnames - Jean Seymour quotes some examples of appropriately-named clergy
Of W. G. Perry of Warwick, and his Original Sacred Melodies - Edmund Gooch explores this publication - includes a setting of St Mary's
A Serious Printer's Error - David Welch draws attention to a major gaffe in Dundee in 1841
A Singer's 10 Commandments - Sally Drage contributes an amusing list printed in a recent newsletter of The Unitarian Music Society
WG Singing Weekend in Yorkshire - Judy Whiting whets the appetite for a forthcoming event
Yet Another Mistake ... - Francis Roads updates an entry in his PhD thesis - includes a setting of Fawcett's Calvary
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 34: Newsletter of the WGMA - Summer 2005- Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
CD Review: 'Haydn and his English Friends': 'Psalmody' and 'The Parley of Instruments', directed by Peter Holman - Chris Gardner
Never had I seen so many viols ... - Tim Henderson reports on the Thames Valley Early Music Forum's workshop of Christmas WG music
London Gallery Quire Go Posh in Piccadilly - Alan Weeks reports on the Friends of the Royal Academy's December 2004 carol service
Event Reports:   SW Quires Day, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Somerset - Eileen Wilson
  'Death & Resurrection' themed workshop at Snods Edge, Co Durham - Paul Emmerson
  Where Moses Stood: Workshop on Larks of Dean music, Rossendale, Lancs - Sheila Macadam
  Cornish Workshop - Alan Weeks
  Mid-Shires Quires' Day - Tony Singleton
  WGMA Spring Gathering, Exeter - Toby Parker
  Marsh Warblers' Church Crawl - John Miles in persona of Samuel Johnson
  Workshop & Evensong, Leeds - Tim Hudson
Introduction from William Jackson of Exeter's 'Hymns in three Parts' - contributed by Edmund Gooch
There's just no other word for it - Ken Baddley suggests Terzverschreibung to explain the accidental misplacement of notes within a stave
A Forgery of Sivewright's Psalmody - David Welch continues his occasional series on Scottish WG psalmody Letters to the Editor
Quire News and Diary Dates
Research Opportunity - Bob Schofield's photograph of a music-related gravestone in Linton, Yorkshire

West Gallery No. 35: Newsletter of the WGMA - Summer 2005 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Event Reports:
  Ring and Sing Thing - Alan Weeks on Beaminster Gallery Quire's combination event
  Accepted Widdop Weekend: Saturday workshop & service, Sunday Church Crawl in W. Yorks - Paul Emmerson
  Rollo Woods' 80th birthday surprise party - Harry Woodhouse
  Called to be Saints' 10th Birthday Church Crawl - Charlotte Bailey
  WGMA input at Sidmouth Folk Week - Mike Bailey and Alan Weeks
  North West Three Choirs Day, Rivington Chapel - Mike Walker
  Jayne Austen Fayre: themed weekend of period music and dancing with The Madding Crowd - Charlotte Bailey
  WG at Whitby Folk Week - Tim Hudson

A Research Opportunity - Rollo Woods gives some background information on potential research projects in Dorsetand Buckinghamshire
Letters to the Editor:
A Serpent in the Gallery - David Hayns reports on his own experience of playing in a church band in 1959, and explores some of the history of mid-18th to mid-19th century church bands
More on Editing - Paul Guppy invites comments on the interpretation of a piece of manuscript music
An old letter just come to light - Stephen Jones in persona of a 19th century naval officer describes an incidence of sacred music on board ship
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 36: Newsletter of the WGMA - Winter 2005/6 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
From the Chairman - report on discussion re block purchase of Sibelius music software Obituary: Mike Walker - Judy Whiting WGMA Draft Constitution - Jean Seymour analyses results of previously circulated consultation questionnaire
Transatlantic Roads - Francis Roads reports on his recent singing experiences in the USA
Event Reports:
  London Gallery Quire church crawl, Sept 05 - Alan Weeks
  Thy Goodness Crowns the Year - Sheila Macadam on two Bedford Gallery Quire's Harvest concerts
  Harvest Festival, Eglingham, Northumberland - Pat Oldale
WGMA Weekend, Ironbridge, Oct 05 - Rita Powell
Where do those words come from? - Mike Bailey discusses some sources for hymn and psalm texts
A Tune Well Key'd - Tony Singleton discusses historical pitching methods and the historical use of pitch-pipes
Letters to the Editor
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 37: Newsletter of the WGMA - Spring 2006 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Sidmouth Folk Week, August 2006 - Alan Weeks explains the latest developments for WG and related music at the forthcoming event
Obituaries - Janet Salway remembered by Eileen Wilson; Mavis Snellgrove remembered by Christine Dyer
London Gallery Quire's Christmas Concert - Mike Bailey reports on an enjoyable event
Joseph Featherston's Music Book - Win Stokes describes her research into a manuscript from Upper Weardale
Anthem 47 & 48: Guilt-Free Editing - Paul Guppy explains why it is sometimes necessary to alter what appears in a manuscript (illustrated)
The Madding Crowd's 9th Party Weekend - Don Grimshaw reports on the annual event at Halsway Manor.
Results of Browsings - Chris Gardner shares 1840s? newspaper cuttings concerning (1) John Wesley's Sacred Harmony and (2) the tune Cranbrook in secular usage
The Parish Clerk, Morebath, Devon, in the 1530s - research piece from Elisabeth Skinner, Univ. of Gloucs.
A Brace of Disasters - Terry Savage amuses with an account of two less-than-perfect Madding Crowd performances
Book Review: Gallery Graces Old & New - Alan Weeks reviews Chris Gardner's compilation, newly published by the WGMA (with music example)
CD Review: Awake Ye Mortals All - Tony Singleton reviews the latest recording by 'The Gladly Solemn Sound'
Miles Lane: the tune and the chapel - the fruits of London Gallery Quire member Tim Henderson's researches
An 1836 Scottish Concert of Sacred Music - David Welch analyses programme and probable performance aspects
Church Crawl, York, July 2006 - Chris Brown whets readers' appetites for this forthcoming event
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 38: Newsletter of the WGMA - Summer 2006 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 32 pages + covers
Event Reports:
  Joyful Noise Georgian Evensong, May 2006 - Paul Emmerson
  WGMA Spring Weekend, Bishop's Cleeve, May 2006 - Penny & John Rowlinson; Stella Hardy

Book launch: The Everlasting Hills: Hymns from the Isle of Man - Fenella Bazin
Book Review: Ye Boundless Realms of Joy: 40 West Gallery hymns and Anthems from The Isle of Man compiled and edited by Francis Roads, reviewed by Paul Gailiunas
Extracts from Parson Woodeforde's Diary - Alan Seymour selects items of West Gallery interest from A Country Parson: James Woodeforde's Diary, 1759-1802
Review: Songs of Praise, BBC1, 21 May 2006 - Mike Spittal's take on a programme for the centenary of the publication of The English Hymnal, which featured members of the London Gallery Quire
What's in a Name? - Sheila Macadam reports on her rediscovery of Amram Taylor, an Oxfordshire WG composer
Lancashire and Cheshire Workingmen's Singing Classes - Jackie Patten contributes an 1845 newspaper report
The Alternative Singing Pages - 'Howleglass' presents a spoof advertising promotion for a singing event in Egypt
Letter to the Editor
Quire News, Forthcoming Events and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 39: Newsletter of the WGMA - Autumn 2006 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Obituary: Jim Dalton 1914-2006 - Elizabeth & Dave Akhurst, followed by Thomas Hardy's poem 'Old Furniture' which Jim's family consider appropriate
Event Reports:
  Madding Crowd at Basildon Park, June 2006 - Penny Rowlinson
  Church Crawl, York, July 2006 - Paul Emmerson
  Mitford Weekend, July 2006 - separate reports by Win Stokes and Penny Rowlinson
  WGMA at Sidmouth Folk Week - Charlotte Bailey
  WG at Whitby Folk Festival - Tim Hudson
Letter to the Editor
Book Review: The Everlasting Hills: Hymns from the Isle of Man - Bob & Jackie Patten
John Hopkins, Metrical Psalmist and Rector of Great Waldingfield: co-author with Thomas Sternhold of the first National English hymn book 1562 - Toby Parker
Was City Church Music Any Better? - Tony Singleton explores the situation in London, quoting from 18th and 19th century sources
Eliot Revisited - Isabella Ashman points out passages of WG musical interest from George Eliot's Silas Marner and Adam Bede
Rules for the Rothiemay Precentor, 1761 - David Welch quotes the Rules and discusses their content
Precentors' Rhymes - Alyson Brailsford contributes a number of examples from Scotland, used at midweek choir practice rather than the actual Psalm/Hymn texts.
Quire News, Forthcoming Events and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 40: Newsletter of the WGMA - Winter 2006 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Reviews: (1) Book & CD: Rev K.H. MacDermott's The Church Gallery Minstrels of Old Sussex - Tony Singleton
(2) CD: Nativity: Christmas Music from Georgian England by The Parley of Instruments/Psalmody - Chris Gardner
Event Reports:
  (1) London Gallery Quire Church Crawl - Ros Hall
  (2) Borders Harmony/Joyful Noise at Doddington - Paul Emmerson
  (3) WGMA Autumn Gathering, Ironbridge - Jenny Ellis and Bob Schofield
  (4) 28th Three Quires Day, Lewes - Terry Savage
  (5) Festival of Village Carols, Grenoside - Steve Fletcher
When people were imprisoned for "the singing of filthy caralles" - reprinted from Chapbook, an Aberdeen-based folk-song magazine, Autumn 1965 - Donald MacDonald's personal selection of Scottish Christmas Carols.
HTI Extension - Professor Nicholas Temperley makes a plea for volunteer help to extend the research to 1900.
Lost Books? - Sally Drage draws attention to a number of tune collections known to have been printed but now of unknown whereabouts.
Quire News; Forthcoming Events; Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 41: Newsletter of the WGMA - Spring 2007 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
A Policy for Improvement – Mike Bailey sets out the Committee’s ideas to improve Association events
Outreach and the WGMA – Francis Roads sets out his ideas, approved by the Committee
WGMA Committee Meeting 5 Jan 2007 - Summary Minutes of their 1st meeting, prepared by Jean Seymour
Letters
The Torrington Diaries – Tony Singleton examines the experiences of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington, as he recorded his visits to churches nationwide from 1781 to 1794
WG Quires were never like this! – Fenella Bazin contributes a set of rules from a Manx chapel on a private estate
Slavery Abolition Celebration, Carter Lane 1807 – Tim Henderson reports on a special service as its bicentenary approaches
Byfield, Beautiful for Situation – Sheila Macadam on the delights of the village and its pub, adopted by Immanuel’s Ground for WG events
John Pennicott: Amberley’s ‘Famous Musicianer’ – Claire Fox inspired by the review of The Church Gallery Minstrels of Old Sussex in the last issue, tells us about her great-great grandfather who appears on the book’s cover
Halsway Manor Weekend – Penny Rowlinson recounts the 10th anniversary of this event
The Ruined Alto – pastiche by Jenni Close, as performed at the Halsway Manor event
Joyful Noise Christmas Workshop – Paul Emmerson reports, followed by further
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 42: Newsletter of the WGMA – Summer 2007 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Minutes of AGM, Ironbridge 12 May 2007
Chairman’s statement to the AGM
Letters to the Editor
A Positive Attitude Towards Improvement – Antonina Spittal contributes a page from Shorne Parish Register, Kent, 1770, detailing donations towards the employment of a Master to teach psalm-singing to young people in the church, and to the purchase of Playford’s tune books from which to sing.
Dr Charles Burney and Congregational Psalmody – Chris Gardner looks at the great man’s strong opinions about parochial psalmody
WGMA Spring Weekend, Ironbridge 11-13 May – Sheila Macadam reports on the recent event
Descriptions of Anglican Church Music in South Gloucestershire in the 1840s – Gareth Amphlett explores the writings of Joseph Leech, editor of the Bristol Times, about music heard in some rural parish churches, visited on his travels in the county.
Scribbles in a Psalter – Lyn Law finds some possible references to bell-ringing, hand-written in a printed Psalter of 1717-1898.
Growth of Hymn Tunes, 1535-1830 – Mike Bailey on the increase in rate of composition of hymn tunes during the stated period (virtually exponential from 1700)
More on Precentors’ Rhymes – David Welch builds on Alyson Brailsford’s contribution to West Gallery number 39
Diary Dates, Forthcoming events, Quire News

West Gallery No. 43: Newsletter of the WGMA – Autumn 2007 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Vice-Presidency presentation to Dave and Mandy Townsend - Sheila & Edwin Macadam
The Berkswell Cello - Chris Egerton describes his ongoing conservation of an important WG instrument
A Cautionary Tale - Lyn Law presents a fictional narrative warning against over-reliance on paper qualifications
The Choirmaster’s Burial by Thomas Hardy - Hannah Davies contributes the well-known poem
Event Reports:
  1)Mid-Shires’ Quires’ Day - Edwin Macadam
  2) Serpentariam 2007 - Edwin Macadam
  3) WG Workshop & Evensong, Caddington, Bedfordshire - Francis Roads
  4) Reopening of Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, South Devon - Chris Brown & Judy Whiting
  5) A Tour of the ‘Old Dissent’ - Ken Baddley on Bedford Gallery Quire’s Church Crawl
  6) Wooldale ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ Church Crawl - David Stow
  7a) WG at Sidmouth Folk Week - Alan Weeks
   b) ‘Tales from a Village’ - Ken Baddley on The Madding Crowd’s concert at Sidmouth Folk Week
  (8) WG at Whitby Folk Week - Tim Hudson
Quotations from John Wesley - Sally Drage contributes extracts from Journals, Letters and Conference Minutes
Robin Hood and the Psalmody Collector - a pastiche by ‘Howleglass’
An Innovation - Margaret Marrs contributes a tale from the notebook of a Methodist preacher on the importance of choosing the right metre for a hymn
The London Gallery Quire CD - Francis Roads details the trials and tribulations of the recording process
CD Review: "Praise Ye The Lord" by London Gallery Quire - Jenny Ellis reviews the CD itself
Quire News, Forthcoming Events and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 44: Newsletter of the WGMA – Winter 2007/8 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
Summaries of Committee Meetings July and November 2007
WGMA Discussion Forum - Edwin Macadam re-introduces the online Forum and details upgrades
The Fruits of our Labour - Committee statement re etiquette in use of others’ editions and transcriptions
Summary of evaluation responses from Sneaton Castle weekend - Mike Bailey
Vice-Presidency presentation to Rollo Woods - photograph with Mike Bailey
Obituary: Ursula Vaughan Williams - Jackie Patten pays tribute to our late President
Event Reports:
  (1)Oxford Occasionals’ ‘visitation’ of churches and chapels - Ken Baddley
  (2)Immanuel’s Ground at Haseley - Bernard Collard
  (3)WGMA weekend, Sneaton Castle, Whitby - Alan Weeks
  (4)Sing Birmingham! - Martin Jones
  (5)Charles Wesley ‘Songs of Praise’ with the William East Quire - Jenny Ellis
  (6)‘Hark, the Glad Sound’: WG Christmas workshop and concert, Earsdon - Cherri Graebe
  (7)A Devon WG Day - Tam Mucklow & Edmund Gooch
Chapel Cheer - But Bad Beer - Chris Gardner quotes from James T Lightwood concerning the opening of Fletcher Street Methodist Chapel, Bolton, c. 1830
Who took over from John Mansell? - Lyn Law presents a puzzling cipher from the title page of a manuscript book
Book Review: Eighteenth Century Psalmody, ed Nicholas Temperley and Sally Drage - Toby Parker
John Fawcett of Wennington (1789 - 1896) - Chris Gardner presents an appreciation of the NW composer on the 140th anniversary of his death
‘Hark, how all the welkin rings’ - Robin King discusses why he thinks Savannah was the original tune for Charles Wesley’s original text
Going the Rounds, Naval Style - Antonina Spittal contributes a Christmas diary entry from a naval chaplain, 1674
Quire News, Forthcoming Events and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 45: Newsletter of the WGMA – Spring 2008 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 28 pages + covers
Notice and Agenda, AGM 2008; Minutes, AGM 2007
Winifred Harman and the Widecombe Manuscripts - Rollo Woods gives reassurance regarding the future of this important collection following the death of their custodian.
Thomas Merritt - Canon Michael Warner gives notice of an event to mark the centenary of this Cornish composer
Event Reports:
(1) London Gallery Quire Church Crawl - Rob Mahoney
(2) Carols at Sidmouth - Phil and Val Sellars
(3) WG Workshop, Beckenham Baptist Church - Val Harrison
(4) 1st Leaders’ Workshop Day - Terry Savage
Book Reviews:
(1) The clerical profession in the long 18th century, W M Jacob - Ken Baddley
(2) Musica Britannia vol. 85: 18th Century Psalmody, ed Nicholas Temperley & Sally Drage - Mike Bailey
The Parochial Anthems of John Bishop - Francis Roads
Quire News and Diary Dates

West Gallery No. 46: Newsletter of the WGMA – Summer 2008 - Ed: Jean Seymour - 36 pages + covers
WGMA AGM 2008: Minutes; Chairman’s and Secretary’s Reports; Accounts to December 2007
Event Reports:
(1)2nd Leaders’ Workshop Day - Marsden and Kath Holden
(2)WGMA Spring Weekend, Ironbridge - Alan Weeks
‘Rigidly Revised, Corrected and Re-arranged’ - Chris Gardner quotes from and comments upon the preface to The Church Psalter and Hymn Book published by Rev. Wm. Mercer, 1854 - 1864.
‘On the Abuse of Psalmody in Churches; and Proposals for remedying it’ - Olga Shotton contributes a piece from The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1741
Richard Partridge of Kennerleigh - Edmund Gooch and Tam Mucklow discuss the musical life and times of this Devon composer
Greenwell’s Musical Glory - Chris Gardner explores the Churchwardens’ Accounts of All Saints’ Church, Lanchester, and discusses a lecture given by Rev. Wm. Greenwell, now best remembered for ‘Greenwell’s Glory’, his particularly successful fishing fly!
Quire News and Forthcoming Events