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A LIFE IN MUSIC

edited by
OWEN, William

Book and CD
 
ISBN-10: 0-19-336063-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-336063-1
Book with CD
Publication date: 28 August 2008 

Told in a series of interviews with Sir David Willcocks and rounded out with reflections from a roll-call of eminent composers, musicians, and friends, this book presents a portrait of a highly gifted musician whose leadership, decency, and humanity have inspired countless singers to follow his example and live a life rich in music. Includes CD with many of Sir David's famous recordings.

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                      MUSIC AT RIPON CATHEDRAL
           657 - 2008
                        
     Malcolm S. Beer
  Howard M. Crawshaw

ISBN 978-0-9531979-3-4

   First Published 2008
                 
Ripon Cathedral Music Foundation
 
A COUNTRY CATHEDRAL ORGANIST LOOKS BACK   (Published Dec 2005)
David Gedge

MORE FROM A COUNTRY CATHEDRAL ORGANIST   (Published Mar 2008)
David Gedge

Contact the author for further information

Bridgend House
24 Bridge Street
Kidwelly
Carmarthen, SA17  4UU

Tel: 01554  890646


THE ORGANISTS AND ORGANS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL
                  

Watkins Shaw / Roy Massey

Published by Hereford Cathedral Organ Committee
ISBN 0 90464 216 X

First Published 1976
Revised edition 2005

Available from Hereford Cathedral Perpetual Trust, 5 College Cloisters, Hereford HR1 2NG (01432 271990) priced £5.95 plus £1.50 postage or from the cathedral shop.

Email   perpetual.trust@herefordcathedral.org
THE CAROL BOOK

The complete resourse for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
Compiled and edited by David Illif and John Barnard

Further information   PDF File

Available from the RSCM Online Shop


CATHEDRAL MUSIC
 The Pitkin Guide

Pitkin
Jarrold Publishing
ISBN 1-84165-113-3

This 21 page booklet is beautifully presented and is highly recommended .
Excellent value at around £5 plus postage.
Included in the price is a Cathedral Music collection CD.

Available from some Cathedral Online Shops
Westminster Abbey - 1000 years of music and pageant

James Wilkinson's new book, with a specially recorded CD, written in celebration of the Abbey and its music and launched at this time to mark the 50th anniversary of the Queen's Coronation.

Available from the Abbey Bookshop or by post from 31 Elm Bank Gardens, London, SW13 ONU. (Softback £15 + £3.50 p&p. Hardback £25 + £4 p&p) 
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
29 Volumes
   
Edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell

Read the Guardian book review
The Music of the English Parish Church
2 vols
Nicholas Temperley (1979)
Cambridge University Press
An Annotated Anthology Of Hymns 

J.R.Watson
Oxford University Press
A Century of Cathedral Music 1898 - 1998
A comparison with previous music surveys
of 1898, 1938, 1958, and 1986
John Patton / Steve Taylor (2000)
ISBN 0-9524-283-1-8
Published by the author's
A Few Words on Cathedral Music
S S Wesley 1849
Reprinted Hinrichsen Edition 1965
with additional material by
Francis Westbrook and Gerald Spink
English Cathedral Music
Edmund H. Fellows
SBN 416 14850 6
Methuen 1941   rev. J.A.Westrup 1969
Latin Church Music in England 1460 -1575
Hugh Benham
ISBN 0 214  20059 0
Barrie @ Jenkins 1977
Twentieth Century Church Music
(Studies in Church Music)
Erik Routley
Herbert Jenkins 1964  (Rev:1966)
The Musical Wesleys
Studies in Church Music
Erik Routley
SBN 257.65637.5
Herbert Jenkins 1968
Music and the Reformation in England 1549 -1660
Studies in Church Music
Peter le Huray
SBN 257.65637.5
Oxford University Press 1967
The Choral Tradition
An Historical and Analytical Survey from the Sixteenth Century
to the present day
Percy Young
Hutchinson 4th Imp., 1968
Church Music in the Nineteenth Century
Studies in Church Music
Arthur Hutchins
Herbert Jenkins 1967
Tudor Church Music
Denis Stevens
Faber @ Faber 1961
Restoration Cathedral Music  1660 - 1714
Ian Spink
ISBN 0198161492
Clarendon Press 1995
The Westminster Abbey Singers
The Story of Westminster Abbey Choir School
Edward Pine
Dennis Dobson Ltd  (1953)
The Chapel Royal Ancient @ Modern
David Baldwin
ISBN 0 7156 2349 4
Duckworth (1990)
Charles Villiers Stanford
Paul Rodmell
ISBN 85928 198 2
Ashgate (October 2002)      Information                 
Charles Villiers Stanford. Man and Musician
Jeremy Dibble
ISBN 0-19-816383-5
Oxford University Press
Giving Voice
A hand book for choir directors and trainers
David Hill. Hilary Parfitt.
"How to be a successful Choir Director"
John Bertalot
ISBN 1 84003 865 9
Kevin Mayhew
The Best of Both Worlds:  A Life of Sir William Mckie
Howard Hollis
ISBN 0-646-0700307
Sir William Mckie Memorial Trust
Quires and Places where they Sing
Sidney Nicholson
Bell @ Sons Ltd (1932)
A Centenary Memoir
Zechariah Buck. Organist and
Master of the Choristers at Norwich Cathedral 1817 -1877
Frederic G Kitson
Jarrold @ Sons Norwich (1899)
A History of the Pilgrims' School and Earlier Winchester Choir Schools
John Crook
ISBN 0 85033 429 2 (1981)
ISBN 0850338093    (1991)
Phillimore
A Jewel or Ornament                                                                                    
The illustrated story of the historic organs and choral tradition in the church of St Mary and St Thomas ,Canterbury. Wymondham, Norfolk
Maxwell Betts  1974 and 1997
Taverner Publications
English Church Polyphony
Singers and Sources from the 14th to the 17th Century
Roger Bowers
ISBN 0-86078-778-8
Ashgate Varirum
English Church Music
Christopher Dearnley
Barrie @ Jenkin
The Music of the English Church
Kenneth Long
Hodder @ Stoughton
A Catalogue of Choral Music (arranged in Biblical Order)
James Laster
Scarecrow Press
Singing Church. An outline history of the Music
H C Philips (1968)
ISBN 0571088724
Faber
A Short History of English Church Music
Erik Routley. (with additional material by Lionel Dakers)
ISBN 0 26467440 5
Mowbray 1997 (1st ed. 1977)
English Choral Practice 1400 - 1650
    Information link     
J Morehen
Cambridge University Press (1995)
Herbert Howells
Paul Spicer
ISBN 1 85411 2325  
Seren
The History of the English Organ
Stephen Bicknell
ISBN 0 521 65409 2
Cambridge University Press
A Spiritual Song
The Story of the Temple Choir and a History of
Divine Service in the Temple Church
David Lewer
The Templars Union ( 1000 copies only printed )
George Thalben-Ball
Jonathan  Rennert
ISBN 0-751-7863-5
David @ Charles (1979)
The Elgar - Atkins Friendship
E.W. Atkins
David @Charles
The Temple Church in London
David Lewer and Robert Darke
ISBN 0 943667 48 6
Historical Publications
A History of King's College Choir School
An account written by the History Master at the School
R J Henderson
ISBN 0-9507528 0 0
Available from the School
The King's College Choir Book
Jonathan Rippon @ Penny Cleobury
ISBN 1 86077 052 5
Phillimore @ Co Ltd
A Guest at Cambridge
George Guest
ISBN 1-55725-038-3
Paraclete Press
Hymns and  hymn singing
David Baker @ Joan Welsby
ISBN 1-85311-068-X
Canterbury Press. Norwich
Choirs and Cloisters
Sixty years of music in church, college, cathedral and Chapels Royal
Frederic Hodgson        
ISBN 0 905210
(Thames)
Places Where They Sing:           
Memoirs of a Church Musician
Lionel Dakers
Canterbury Press
The Beat is irrelevant
Barry Rose and the early years of
Guildford Cathedral Choir
read five excerpts from this book
Simon Carpenter
Published by Guildford Cathedral OCA
Stagg Hill, Guildford. GU2 5UP
Blessed City
The Life of Sir Edward Bairstow
Francis Jackson
Published by William Sessions, York
Blazers Badges and Books
School Uniforms
Alexander Davidson
(Scope Books)
Barchester
English Cathedral Life in the 19th Century
Philip Barrett
ISBN 0-281-04667-0
SPCK
Window on Westminster
Trevor Beeson
ISBN 0-334-02745-4
SCM Press
The Organs of Lincoln Cathedral
Robert Pacey
ISBN 09533457-0-X
Published by Lincoln Cathedral Music Appeal
The Contribution of Cambridge Ecclesiologists
to the revival of Anglican Choral Worship 1839-62
Dale Adelmann
ISBN 1859283896
Ashgate Press
Orlando Gibbons @ the Gibbons Family of Musicians
John Harley
ISBN 18401 4209X
Ashgate Press
The Imp and the Thistle
The story of a life of music making
Dennis Townhill
St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh
History of St Michael's College Tenbury
M.F. Alderson / H.C. Colles
SPCK 1943
Elgar and the Three Choirs Festival
Donald Hunt
ISBN 1 872962 76 9
Osborne Heritage
We Sang It Our Way
Reginald Frary
Canterbury Press
A Century of Cathedral Music 1898 -1998
John Patton
Available from 199 Romsey Road, Winchester,
Hampshire. SO 22 5PG
Beauty beyond Words
Enriching worship through music
Lionel Dakers
ISBN 1 85311 351 4
Canterbury Press
Thine Adversaries Roar
Michael Howard
ISBN 0 85244 530 X
Gracewing Ltd
The Music of John Ireland
Fiona Richards
ISBN 0 7546 0111 0 308
Ashgate Press
New College Brats
Life and Education of Choristers at New College Oxford.
Jonathan Edmunds (1996)
Come on Choristers
A history of Durham Cathedral Choristers School
Brian Crosby (1999)
ISBN 0-9537524-0-2
Children of the Garter
Russell Thorndyke
Rich @ Cowan (1937)
Choristers' Cake
William Mayne          An Interview with William Mayne
Oxford University Press (1956)               CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE
A Swarm in May
William Mayne
Oxford University Press 1955
Cathedral Wednesday
William Mayne
Oxford University Press 1960
Choristers and  their Masters
Brian Crosby
Durham Dean and Chaptor (1980)
The Chorister's of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Neville Wridgway
C. Luff (1980)
Rochester Cathedral Choir School
(a short history)
Revd. R Johnson M.A. Oxon
Pamphlet 1959
A Pilgrimage of Song
The Times and Chimes of St. Mary-of-the-Angels Song School 1919 - 1972
Desmond  Morse-Boycott
SBN 7164 0235 1
The Faith Press 1972
A Tapestry of Toil
Desmond Morse-Boycott
SBN 71640175 4
The Faith Press 1970
Memories of Eton College Choir School
Compiled by  V.M. Bairstow
ISBN 0 9520949 0 8
Eton College Old Choristers Association 1993
A Joyous Adventure in the Dominion of Canada
Official visit to Canada of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Free Chapel
of St. George in Windsor Castle and the Choristers of Westminster Abbey
January 29th - March 16th 1927
Fellowes, Nicholson et al.
Dent 1928
The Choral Singer's Companion
Ronald Corp
Batsford
Peter - The Adventures of a Chorister
over a thousand years
Sidney H Nicholson  (1963)
Westminster Cathedral 1895 - 1995
Peter Doyle
ISBN 0-225-66684-7
Geoffrey Chapman
The Musical History of Norwich Cathedral
Noel Boston (1963)
Published by The Friends of Norwich Cathedral
'Parish' Past and Present: 275  Years of Leeds Parish Church Music
Donald Webster
Leeds 'Old Choirboys' Association (1988)
Words and Music
William Mayne 
Hamish Hamilton (1963)
William Crotch 1775 - 1847
Composer, Artist , Teacher
Jonathan Rennert
ISBN 0 900963 61 1
Terence Dalton 1975
Walford Davies
H C Colles
Oxford University Press (1943)
Sarum Close
D H Robinson
Original Publisher. Jonathan Cape (1939)
Firecrest
The Choral Revival in the English Church
Bernarr Rainbow
Barrie @ Jenkins
 
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