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Gill Sans SUBS 3rd Oct 2023		Book Hymns Ancient And Modern - Hymns Ancient And Modern (1950)	This compendium of hymns has been the mainstay of British church choirs for well over a century. The title and the publisher are the same. No individual is credited as the author so I take it that a committee of Hymns Ancient and Modern can be credited with this.
Gill Sans SUBS 6th Sep 2023		Book John Henderson [RCSM] - A Directory Of Composers For Organ (1996)	Henderson's website is now gone, you can only see the basic pages at archive.org
Gill Sans SUBS 5th Sep 2023		Book Peter Le Huray - The Treasury Of English Church Music 1545 – 1650 (1982)	The history of the developments in English Church Music during this period is summarised in the four-page Introduction, the book then proceeding to a brief description of each of the named composers and of the printed scores which make up the greater part of the book.
Gill Sans SUBS 13th Aug 2023		Book Elio Battaglia - Vaccaj: Metodo Pratico Di Canto (2003)	The accompanying CD of 66 tracks by Nuccia Focile, Lucio Gallo, and Erik Battaglia can be seen on Classical World.
Gill Sans SUBS 29th Apr 2023		Book Stockport Historical Society - Aspects Of Church History (2003)	No contents page but four sections: One Church, One Faith, Two Cultures? - A study of the relationship between Anglican clergy and the people in the urban north-west, 1881-1930, by Chris Ford Choral Church Music Through The Ages - a lecture-recital given by Dr. Mike Kirby and Renaissance Roman Catholic Emergence Into Public Life - as reflected in the architecture of Catholic churches in the nineteenth century in the Diocese of Salford, by Tony McBride John Bennett and the Beginnings of Stockport Methodism, by E. A. Rose
Gill Sans SUBS 26th Mar 2023		Book William Billings - The Continental Harmony (1794)	As an enthusiast for the Anthems, Fuges, And Chorusses of William Billings, I had to look when this rare item appeared on eBay for US $12,500 "OCLC records only six copies and none outside the United States. Sabin 5415, Evans 26673, RISM, A/I/1, B2655, Britton & Lowens 104" Fortunately the music scores themselves are all available for free on IMSLP
Gill Sans SUBS 4th Apr 2022		Book John Henderson [RCSM] - A Directory Of Composers For Organ (1996)	Website organcomposers.com where you can see all updates to 2022, and contribute new entries
Gill Sans SUBS 17th May 2020		Book The Book Of Common Prayer - Cambridge University Press (2004)	The BCP is the official prayer book of the Church of England, covering services in common time and for all feasts of the liturgical calendar as well as for occasions such as weddings and funerals. It has remained in use through many printings. For many churchgoers Evensong and Compline are favourite services, allowing tranquil contemplation in a formal setting. There are many examples of compline services on YouTube but there is an online service which was recorded for the followers of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts to use during the current lock-down. The order of service is followed in the oldest traditional way and allows viewers to follow the order from the service sheet, including the music scores in the traditional scoring for plainchant. ssje.org/compline/
Gill Sans SUBS 27th Dec 2019		Book The Word Revealed - Royal School Of Church Music (2011)	WorldCat gives the OCLC Number as 778917015 but I cannot enter that here as the Class Number
Gill Sans SUBS 15th Jun 2017		Book Christopher Morris - A Sixteenth-century Anthem Book (1976)	..and what is the first Anthem here? [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 27th Oct 2015		Book Various Authors - Fairest Isle (1995)	Issued to celebrate Radio 3's Year of British Music and Culture, with an accompanying CD BM 1 The title is taken from an aria in the Purcell opera King Arthur, libretto by John Dryden
Gill Sans SUBS 9th Oct 2015		Book Various Authors - Carols For Choirs 1: Fifty Christmas Carols (1961)	Me too, JP, apart from the boarding! I came to adult choirs rather late in life, and it has been like coming home to somewhere wonderful
Gill Sans SUBS 8th Oct 2015		Book Patrick Russill - Herbert Howells: Latin Church Music 3: Nunc Dimittis (2014)	This setting can be heard on CD COLCD 113
Gill Sans SUBS 8th Oct 2015		Book E. J. Moeran - Songs Of Springtime (2008)	All these titles are on the CD BMS417CD
Gill Sans SUBS 30th Sep 2015		Book Frederick J. Furnivall - Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript (1868)	Songs for a glee club, I guess