Gallery Music   English church and chapel music of the 1700s and early 1800s

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Welcome

Welcome to Gallery Music, an area on the Web that focuses on the music sung and played in churches and chapels in the 1700s and early 1800s. Whether you know the genre as west gallery music or Georgian psalmody or whatever, I hope you will enjoy exploring this site!

Main areas

Sheet music -- original scores and transcriptions that can be printed out, photocopied and used with your local choir or music group

MIDI & MP3 -- general MIDI and mp3 files to give a flavour of the music

Articles -- overviews of the music in different locations, case studies of individual psalmodists and bands, papers from both conferences on Georgian psalmody held by The Colchester Institute, and more...

Who was who -- brief biographical and bibliographical notes on some of the individuals from the gallery music period, cross-referenced (where possible) to other parts of this area

Library -- an online library of gallery-music facsimiles in pdf format. Some are free. Some will cost the same as a photocopy of them would from a physical archive. (August 2019: I might expand this area in the future.)

Resources -- links to other Internet resources relating to gallery music and psalmody, including national and local UK organisations, and to sites linked to this one.

History of site

Parts of this site were first developed back in 1993, when the web was fairly new, handtyped in html when I worked part-time at The Open University (they actively encouraged and supported staff to experiment with new media).

The earliest transcriptions of psalm tunes and anthems were created in Deluxe Music Transcription Set initially for the William East Quire -- it was great fun to hear the old harmonies sounding out from my Mac SE.

Acrobat came on the scene around the mid 1990s, so that was brought into play to enable the early transcriptions and facsimiles to go online.

Later, prettier, incarnations of the site used Adobe GoLive, which unfortunately created problems further down the line for maintenance.

This iteration has used SubEthaEdit to tidy up the text and try to repair any broken links. Other than that, the content remains the same (and just as valid) as back in 2007.

Acknowledgements

Much of the material originates from members of the West Gallery Music Association, to whom my thanks are due.

    

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