West Gallery Music

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West Gallery Music is a term coined to describe the music performed in English country churches during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is so called because the music was typically perfromed by a group of singers and musicians housed in the West Gallery of the church. The music is sometimes also referred to as 'Georgian Psalmody' since it flourished in the reigns of George I to George IV.

External links

West Gallery Music Association website - a great deal of useful information, with links to other sites dealing with this music.

Gordon Ashman, Introduction to West Gallery Music - online version of an article which first appeared in English Dance and Song, 56 (4), Winter 1994.

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