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Planning for Christmas Services? Finding fresh ideas can always be a challenge. Fortunately, the Church Music Society ca...
04/10/2025

Planning for Christmas Services? Finding fresh ideas can always be a challenge. Fortunately, the Church Music Society can help. We have a fabulous selection of Christmas repertoire, including this lovely setting of “While Shepherds watched their flocks by night” by Jane Savage - possibly the earliest music written by a woman for the Anglican Church.

Available to buy here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/whilst-shepherds-watchd-their-flocks-by-night-9780193954267?cc=gb&lang=en&

Our latest release: 2 new sacred versions of the wonderful 8-part madrigals by Pearsall. Chairman Patrick Russill has ad...
03/07/2025

Our latest release: 2 new sacred versions of the wonderful 8-part madrigals by Pearsall. Chairman Patrick Russill has adapted two standard eucharistic texts, 'Tantum ergo' and 'O salutaris' to allow regular performance of the pieces at Mass, Benediction and all Communion services. (On the website you can find keyboard reductions in alternative transpositions.) Purchase from your regular supplier, or via OUP's website:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/two-eucharistic-motets-9780193708174?q=pearsall%20tantum&lang=en&cc=gb

Here's the start of the Gloria...
31/05/2025

Here's the start of the Gloria...

Now available - the first published edition/reconstruction of the Mag & Nunc in F by Daniel Roseingrave. An attractive a...
31/05/2025

Now available - the first published edition/reconstruction of the Mag & Nunc in F by Daniel Roseingrave. An attractive alternative to Wise in E flat, in a similar 'step tripla' style.

The Church Music Society remembers with gratitude and great affection Dr Simon Lindley (1948-2025), its long-serving Sec...
26/02/2025

The Church Music Society remembers with gratitude and great affection Dr Simon Lindley (1948-2025), its long-serving Secretary from 1991 to 2023, and subsequently a Vice-President of the CMS, who has just died. He was a tireless ambassador for the Society, for its members and its work. He was a consummate musician, outstandingly generous in friendship and a great, though modest, servant of all that is best in worship in the house of God.

New in the Downloads area of the website: the Evening Service in E by Miss Lucy Moseley dating from 1812. Little is know...
21/05/2024

New in the Downloads area of the website: the Evening Service in E by Miss Lucy Moseley dating from 1812. Little is known about Lucy Moseley beyond being from Exeter, where a volume of church music was printed in 1813 containing several works that were sung at the Cathedral. This is 60 or so years earlier than other choral settings of canticles by women composers previously identified. Here's the start of the Nunc dimittis...

The CMS is delighted to announce the publication of the Preces & Responses by David Trendell, composed when he was organ...
09/04/2024

The CMS is delighted to announce the publication of the Preces & Responses by David Trendell, composed when he was organ Scholar at Exeter College, Oxford, before going on to become one of the most admired scholar-performers of his generation, and a great friend to so many. He sadly passed away too young, ten years ago this year. The P&R have already been sung twice on BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong, directed by Jeremy Summerly at St Luke's, Chelsea, and by Matthew Martin from the Edington Music Festival. Available from OUP now!

The Music Downloads page now contains a new reconstruction of the splendid but fragmentary 6th Evening Service by Thomas...
07/02/2024

The Music Downloads page now contains a new reconstruction of the splendid but fragmentary 6th Evening Service by Thomas Weelkes. It contains significant differences to the other versions currently available in print or online, e.g. the realisation of the Tenor verse 'He hath shewed strength' as a duet, as shown here.

And here's an excerpt from the SATB version...
07/02/2024

And here's an excerpt from the SATB version...

This little-known setting in the Wanley partbooks, like the famous setting by Stone, has the appropriate short text used...
07/02/2024

This little-known setting in the Wanley partbooks, like the famous setting by Stone, has the appropriate short text used at Matins and Evensong. It's ideal for Lower Voice services, or there's an arrangement for SATB provided as well in which some of the movement of the inner parts (one of which is editorial in any case) is adjusted. Here's the start of the AATB original...

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