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New Version of the Psalms with Music
Facsimile of 1708 edition
privately published by Matthew Hyde

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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"


The Divine Companion
Henry Playford’s 1722 Compilation of One, Two, and Three Part Music.
Edited for modern choirs by Francis Roads.

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Gallery Graces - Old and New
Selected & Edited by Christopher Gardner
Pub. West Gallery Music Association

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"Let Our Joys Be Known"
Twenty years of the West Gallery Music Association
Ed.Edwin & Sheila Macadam

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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).
OUT OF PRINT


Never on Sunday
Edited Rollo Woods
Pub. Purbeck Village Quire

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The Worth Carols
Pub. Purbeck Village Quire

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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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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
Pub. 1995 Sussex Harmony
ISBN 0-9526250-0-8
Price £4 inc.p&p

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West Gallery Harmony; Carols and Celebrations
Ed. Gordon and Isabella Ashman
2nd revised edn. pub. 2009, West Gallery Music Association

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

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West Gallery Harmony; Psalms and Hymns
Ed. Gordon and Isabella Ashman
2nd revised edn. pub. 2001

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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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The Parish Church Music of John Bishop
By Francis Roads
Pub. New Generation Publishing
RRPrice £7.99+£1.99 p&p

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Books about West Gallery Music and Social History

Music-making in the Hertfordshire Parish, 1760–1870
by Maggie Kilbey

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

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