30th July 2016 at Methodist Church, Sidmouth.
"Start the Week" (taster session for singing workshops later in the week), Sidmouth Folk Week.
Country: Britain. Style: West Gallery music.
Lineup: Mike Bailey (MD), 2 x violin, viola, cello, 3 x clarinet & choir.
The Weatherbury Quire is made up of West Gallery Music Association members from around the country and comes together specifically for Sidmouth. The MD is Mike Bailey who lead the West Gallery workshop at the festival. The name comes from a choir in "Under The Green Wood Tree" by Thomas Hardy. West Gallery music is the term used today to describe the music that was played and sung in English churches from the late 17th Century up to about 1860 (at the time it would have been called Psalmody). Most church organs had been destroyed and after the Restoration village bands and singers were invited into churches, often placed in galleries built for them at the western end of the church. The musical mainstays of the services were the metrical psalms, either the Old Version from 1562, or the New Version from 1696. Few bands could afford printed music, and they usually copied it out by hand. The era ended when parsons started wanted a return to the earlier era of music played on the organ with a regular choir in surpluses. The music did not die out completely, continuing in the carol traditions in Yorkshire and the West Country, and Shape Note singing in the USA. Many of the hymn manuscripts were burned, but enough survived to provide the repertoire for the current revival.
More information: www.wgma.org.uk/.
Tags: Christian Hymns West Gallery Music Great Britain Weatherbury Quire Sidmouth Folk Week Methodist Church, Sidmouth Sidmouth
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30th July 2016 at Methodist Church, Sidmouth.
"Start the Week" (taster session for singing workshops later in the week), Sidmouth Folk Week.
Country: Britain. Style: West Gallery music.
Lineup: Mike Bailey (MD), 2 x violin, viola, cello, 3 x clarinet & choir.
The Weatherbury Quire is made up of West Gallery Music Association members from around the country and comes together specifically for Sidmouth. The MD is Mike Bailey who lead the West Gallery workshop at the festival. The name comes from a choir in "Under The Green Wood Tree" by Thomas Hardy. West Gallery music is the term used today to describe the music that was played and sung in English churches from the late 17th Century up to about 1860 (at the time it would have been called Psalmody). Most church organs had been destroyed and after the Restoration village bands and singers were invited into churches, often placed in galleries built for them at the western end of the church. The musical mainstays of the services were the metrical psalms, either the Old Version from 1562, or the New Version from 1696. Few bands could afford printed music, and they usually copied it out by hand. The era ended when parsons started wanted a return to the earlier era of music played on the organ with a regular choir in surpluses. The music did not die out completely, continuing in the carol traditions in Yorkshire and the West Country, and Shape Note singing in the USA. Many of the hymn manuscripts were burned, but enough survived to provide the repertoire for the current revival.
More information: www.wgma.org.uk/.
Tags: Christian Hymns West Gallery Music Great Britain Weatherbury Quire Sidmouth Folk Week Methodist Church, Sidmouth Sidmouth
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30th July 2016 at Methodist Church, Sidmouth.
"Start the Week" (taster session for singing workshops later in the week), Sidmouth Folk Week.
Country: Britain. Style: West Gallery music.
Lineup: Mike Bailey (MD), 2 x violin, viola, cello, 3 x clarinet & choir.
The Weatherbury Quire is made up of West Gallery Music Association members from around the country and comes together specifically for Sidmouth. The MD is Mike Bailey who lead the West Gallery workshop at the festival. The name comes from a choir in "Under The Green Wood Tree" by Thomas Hardy. West Gallery music is the term used today to describe the music that was played and sung in English churches from the late 17th Century up to about 1860 (at the time it would have been called Psalmody). Most church organs had been destroyed and after the Restoration village bands and singers were invited into churches, often placed in galleries built for them at the western end of the church. The musical mainstays of the services were the metrical psalms, either the Old Version from 1562, or the New Version from 1696. Few bands could afford printed music, and they usually copied it out by hand. The era ended when parsons started wanted a return to the earlier era of music played on the organ with a regular choir in surpluses. The music did not die out completely, continuing in the carol traditions in Yorkshire and the West Country, and Shape Note singing in the USA. Many of the hymn manuscripts were burned, but enough survived to provide the repertoire for the current revival.
More information: www.wgma.org.uk/.
Tags: Christian Hymns West Gallery Music Great Britain Weatherbury Quire Sidmouth Folk Week Methodist Church, Sidmouth Sidmouth
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30th July 2016 at Methodist Church, Sidmouth.
"Start the Week" (taster session for singing workshops later in the week), Sidmouth Folk Week.
Country: Britain. Style: West Gallery music.
Lineup: Mike Bailey (MD), 2 x violin, viola, cello, 3 x clarinet & choir.
The Weatherbury Quire is made up of West Gallery Music Association members from around the country and comes together specifically for Sidmouth. The MD is Mike Bailey who lead the West Gallery workshop at the festival. The name comes from a choir in "Under The Green Wood Tree" by Thomas Hardy. West Gallery music is the term used today to describe the music that was played and sung in English churches from the late 17th Century up to about 1860 (at the time it would have been called Psalmody). Most church organs had been destroyed and after the Restoration village bands and singers were invited into churches, often placed in galleries built for them at the western end of the church. The musical mainstays of the services were the metrical psalms, either the Old Version from 1562, or the New Version from 1696. Few bands could afford printed music, and they usually copied it out by hand. The era ended when parsons started wanted a return to the earlier era of music played on the organ with a regular choir in surpluses. The music did not die out completely, continuing in the carol traditions in Yorkshire and the West Country, and Shape Note singing in the USA. Many of the hymn manuscripts were burned, but enough survived to provide the repertoire for the current revival.
More information: www.wgma.org.uk/.
Tags: Christian Hymns West Gallery Music Great Britain Weatherbury Quire Sidmouth Folk Week Methodist Church, Sidmouth Sidmouth
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30th July 2016 at Methodist Church, Sidmouth.
"Start the Week" (taster session for singing workshops later in the week), Sidmouth Folk Week.
Country: Britain. Style: Shape Note Singing.
Lineup: Steve Fletcher (v), Richard Percival (v), Zuzanna Forster (v), Toby Goss (v).
Canaan’s Land were formed in 2015, and lead the Shape Note workshop at the festival. Shape note singing is an American psalmody of the 18th century to the present day. There are different traditions based on songbooks, of which the Sacred Harp is the best known. The songs are written in "shaped notes" to assist sight reading, and are delivered in unaccompanied four part harmony. Each song begins with singing of the solfege or syllables attached to the noteheads before the printed text.
More information: canaansland.weebly.com/.
Tags: Christian Hymns Shape Note Singing Great Britain Canaan's Land Sidmouth Folk Week Methodist Church, Sidmouth Sidmouth
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