LITERARY REFERENCES to West Gallery Music

Some of these accounts have been published in Rollo Woods' book Good Singing Still

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS
Burney | Galpin | A German Traveller | La Trobe | The Parish Choir

FICTIONAL REFERENCES
Events   |   Music   |   Texts   |   Instruments   |   Personalities
AUTHORS
Samuel Butler - The Way of all Flesh
George Eliot - Scenes of Clerical Life
Thomas Hardy
Novels & Short Stories
A Few Crusted Characters | The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Return of the Native | Two on a Tower
Under the Greenwood Tree
Poems
A Church Romance | The Choirmaster's Burial
To my Father's Violin | Afternoon Service at Mellstock
The Paphian Ball

Washington Irving - Old Christmas

EVENTS
Easter | Whitsun (Club walks) | Harvest | Christmas 1 & 2 | Funerals | Weddings
HYMN and PSALM TEXTS
"Arise and Hail" | "Behold the Morning Star"
"Rejoice, ye tenants of the earth" | "While shepherds watched"
The Magnificat | Psalm 53 | Old Hundredth | Psalm 104 | Psalm 109
Psalm 128 (Wedding) | Psalm 133
INSTRUMENTS
Barrel-Organ | Bass viol | Clarinet 1 & 2 | Fiddle | Harmonium | Serpent
MUSIC
Tunes by name: Cambridge New | Devizes | Lydia | Mount Ephraim (x2) | New Sabbath | Old Hundredth | Old Wiltshire
PERSONALITIES
Parish Clerk 1 & 2 | neighbour Yeobright | farmer Shiner

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