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Printed Music

Gallery Graces
The Choristers Companion
A Christmas Celebration
Coombs's Divine Amusement
Georgian Psalmody 2 : Music Anthology
Music for Country Churches
Never on Sunday
Psalmody Improved
Praise & Glory

West Gallery Christmas Music from Northamptonshire
The Singing Seat
West Gallery Music Vol.1:
      General Service Music
William East: The Voice of Melody
Ye Boundless Realms of Joy
Your Voices Raise
CD-ROMs of West Gallery Music books

Books about WG Music

The Music of the English Parish Church
Good Singing Still
The Gallery Tradition
The Church Gallery Minstrels of Old Sussex


The Choristers Companion: New Series
Anon. (ed.) (1825) (facsimile edition)
A collection of 22 four-part anthems by art-music and psalmody composers, including Kent, Jarman, Handel, Bond. vi+152 pages. Comb bound, 182x257mm (HxW).
pub. SG Publishing email
ISBN 0 9529336 6 7
RRPrice: £19.99 (see below)

A Christmas Celebration
11 Carols from Georgian England,
ed. Peter Holman and Sally Drage,
pub. 1997 Faber and Faber, 3, Queen Square, London.
ISBN 0-571-51792-7
see companion CD "While Shepherds Watched"


Coombs's Divine Amusement
(c1824) (facsimile edition)
A collection of 48 hymns, psalms and anthems, including 'Vital Spark' and other popular items from the gallery music repertoire. vi+67 pages. Comb bound, 257x182mm (HxW).
pub. SG Publishing email
ISBN 0 9529336 7 5
Retail price £12.99 (see below)

Gallery Graces - Old and New
Selected & Edited by Christopher Gardner
Pub. West Gallery Music Association
RRPrice £2 + ?? p&p

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Georgian Psalmody 2: Music Anthology
ed. Sally Drage
pub. SG Publishing email
Hardback, A4 format, 46 pages, 19 pieces
ISBN 0 9529336 2 4
RRPrice: £16


Music for Country Churches: A West-Gallery Anthology
ed. Blaise Compton.
Collection of 28 items, in sections: music for matins, psalms and hymns, the church year, carols, anthems, and Manx music. Composers include S. Chapman, A. Adams, R.Bremner, J. Smith, J. Key, J. Hill, J. Arnold, J. Crompton, W.Knapp, W.Cole, J.Stephenson, and others.
Compiled for the 1st international conference on Gallery Music in August, 1995, in Clacton, England. 80 pages. Comb bound, 257x182mm (HxW).
pub.King's Music cbkings@ibm.net
c/o C. and E.Bartlett, Redcroft, Bank's End, Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambs., PE17 2AA. Price: £10 +p&p (cheques to C.A.J.Bartlett)

Never on Sunday
Edited Rollo Woods
Pub. Purbeck Village Quire
RRPrice £10 inc. p&p

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Praise & Glory
A New Psalter of Metrical Psalms
Ed. Rollo Woods
150 of the most common Psalm Tunes, using the Metric Psalms of the Old and New Versions, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Thomas Merrick, and others.
For the Use of Country Choirs
Published by the West Gallery Music Association
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Psalmody Improved
William Gresham, c1799 (facsimile edition)
118 pages, 40+ psalm tunes with interludes, plus canticles; words to selected psalms from Tate and Brady's version opposite each tune. Splendid introduction commenting on performance practice and Gresham's proposed improvements. Comb bound, 182x257mm (HxW).
pub. SG Publishing email
ISBN 0 9529336 4 0
RRPrice: £16 (see below)


The Singing Seat
West Gallery Music from the Choir Books of the Parish Church of St. Laurence, Catsfield, Sussex
Ed. Edwin Macadam and Tony Singleton email
Pub. 1995 Sussex Harmony
ISBN 0-9526250-0-8
Price £5

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West Gallery Christmas Music from Northamptonshire
Coll. & Ed. Stephen J Weston
Pub. Camerata Publishing, Kettering
RRPrice £3

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West Gallery Harmony; Psalms and Hymns
Ed. Gordon and Isabella Ashman
pub. 1997 Gordon and Isabella Ashman, 2 Fairlawn, Albrighton, Shropshire
REPRINTING

West Gallery Harmony; Carols and Celebrations
Ed. Gordon and Isabella Ashman
Pub. 1998 West Gallery Music Association, email
ISBN 1-899947-02-7
RRPrice: £


West Gallery Music Vol. 1; General Service Music
Ed. Francis Roads
Pub. 1999 Kevin Mayhew Ltd., Buxhall, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 3DJ.
ISBN 1-84003-204-9
ISMN M 57004-400-9
RRPrice £9.99

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William East: The Voice of Melody -- Selected Psalms
Ed. Sue Glover
A selection of 16 fuging and plain psalm tunes published around 1750 by an itinerant singing teacher from Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire. Self-cover A4 booklet, 20 pages
ISBN 0 9529336 5 9
RRPrice £4.99 (£3.50 each for orders of 10+ copies) - see below


Ye Boundless Realms of Joy
40 West Gallery Psalms, Hymns and Anthems from the Isle of Man
Ed. Francis Roads
RRPrice £12.50
ISBN: 1899338 10 1

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Your Voices Raise
Edited Francis Roads
Pub. London Gallery Quire
RRPrice £10 inc. p&p

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SG PUBLISHING:
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BOOKS ABOUT WEST GALLERY MUSIC

Face the Music
by Harry Woodhouse

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The Music of the English Parish Church
by Nicholas Temperley

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Good Singing Still
by Rollo Woods

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The Gallery Tradition (Aspects of Georgian Psalmody)
Papers from the (First) International Conference organised by the Colchester Institute
ISBN 0-9529336-0-8 or from SG Publishing (see above)

 

The Church Gallery Minstrels of Old Sussex
by Rev.K.H.MacDermott

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