The Church Music Society

ADDRESSES AND OTHER ARTICLES

The CMS: its perception, role and future - Alan Thurlow
Alan Thurlow sets out a number of ways in which the Society could further the cause of choral worship.

Before Byrd - Dr Magnus Williamson
Address at the 2005 Annual General Meeting

The Church Music of Herbert Howells - Richard Lloyd
Address given at the 1982 Annual General Meeting

‘Romanticism in Retrospect’ - Simon Lindley
An overview of the work of Herbert Howells and its recent fortunes.

‘A clever thing, but not cathedral music’ - Dr Peter Horton
The church music of Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876).

Faith, intellect and the numinous - Dr Donald Webster
Dr. Webster argues that music, Christianity and science are by no means incompatible

The Church Anthem Books as barometers of taste - Dr Donald Webster
A few surprises, and much merit, in a new edition of an old favourite.

‘Unto Them that Hath Not…’ - Dr Donald Webster
The lost opportunity of the hymn, and its revival through careful selection and thoughtful performance.

Music’s untrodden paths - Judith Blezzard
The rewards of discovering forgotten masterpieces

Unity by inclusion? - Simon Lindley
A plea for preservation and renewal in the Anglican choral tradition

Muse and the Mass - Simon Lindley
A survey of the Choral Repertory and the Service of Holy Communion in the Anglican Church – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The sincerest form of flattery - Simon Lindley
Simon Lindley on mirror image in composition

Making the crotchets big enough - Simon Lindley
An appreciation of Richard, Lyne, the honorary general editor of the Church Music Society, and his work

Adventures of a hymn tune - Dr Francis Jackson, OBE
The story of ‘East Acklam’

Hugh Blair: the Battersea Years (1900-4) - Robert Evans
Municipal music making – and its downfall – in part of South-West London.

Artistic Licence -- or Howler? - Robert Evans
C.V. Stanford and the mysterious missing ‘Holy’.

‘Roma locuta, causa finita?’ - Helen Phelan
The perception, interpretation and implementation of conciliar and post- conciliar directives regarding liturgical music in the Republic of Ireland, 1962-1992. The transcript of a Paper read at the 1995 Maynooth International Musical Conference, Ireland

George Garrett (1834-1897) - G.F. Cobb
A piece written a hundred years ago, reproduced at the composer’s centenary

The Yattendon Hymnal: Hymns Ancient and Modernised? - Judith Blezzard
A detailed survey of an editorial masterpiece

‘Much too simple for us…’ - Bernard Barrell
Over-ambition in the selection of church music

Sir Edward Bairstow - Dr Francis Jackson, OBE
An appreciation by a former Organist of York Minster to mark the Centenary of his predecessor.

Sydney H. Nicholson - Christopher le Fleming
A musical anecdote

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