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Gallery Music

West Gallery Music Association Discussion Forum
This is intended for anyone interested in the music, literature and social history of the times. The discussion forum is hosted HERE

Sue Glover's Gallery Music Site
Sheet Music and sound files and a very useful "Who was Who" section on gallery composers

S G Publishing
publishes academic books and facsimiles related to the music sung amd played by church and chapel bands in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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.

Village Carols - site devoted to carolling traditions.

The Stillingfleet Tragedy - the story of how a party of 14 Church Singers in Yorkshire were drowned on Boxing Day, 1833, while out carolling.

Churches and Church Music

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

Isaac Watts' - Psalms and Hymns
Complete texts of all his psalms and hymns with indexes.

Isaac Watts Home Page, from Southampton, UK

The Isaac Watts Fan Club
Includes links to shape-note midi files

John Wesley's Hymns
Complete texts

Charles Wesley Hymns &midi files

Charles Wesley's Biography

The Methodist Archives Biographical Index - biographies of Methodist preachers, hymn-writers, etc

William Cowper - Hymns and Poems

Philip Dodderidge

Olney Hymns

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.

Psalters, etc

Music for the Church of God 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

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.

Sacred Harp Resources - very comprehensive catalogue of all things related to early American religious choral music; also contains a section on 'English Gallery Music'.


Fasola Home Page - shape-note singing, mostly in the US