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Practices
Because of the current
Coronavirus pandemic we have sadly had to cancel all
events and practices
until further notice. See you as soon as we
can !!
In the meantime, we continue with our fortnightly
zoom sessions on a Wednesday evening.
NEW NEW
NEW NEW NEW
Saturday 24th April 2021
We are pleased to announce that there will be
a
VIRTUAL MID-SHIRES' QUIRES'
DAY by ZOOM
on this date from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm (GMT
+1)
We are using favourites from previous MSQD
singing days at Byfield
together with some pieces from
the general WG repertoire.
Please email us
<shelwin8 - at - tiscali.co.uk>
with your intention to "attend". We can then
send you the Zoom link.
We will hope to send out the Zoom join-up
instructions,
about a week beforehand - ie 17th April.
We look forward to seeing many of you
again!!
In the mean time,
music can now be viewed at
http://www.immanuelsground.com/Mid_Shires/msqd2021music/msqdmusic2021.htm
where will be found PDFs for concert and for Bb
instruments,
and
practice audio files (midi) for
download.
The music can also be found in the earlier booklets
produced for the years
2005, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
A larger PDF of all the music sequentially will be
available later, and which
some people will find easier to manipulate.
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In the hope that there will be a window of
opportunity to hold
our biennial day of west gallery music,
Sing Birmingham 2021 at
King's Norton, Birmingham,
is being planned for
Saturday, 6th November
2021.
Let us hope and pray that this will be possible by
that time!
Please
contact us for further details.
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Music from past performances -
link here
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Pictures from past years -
link
here
ALSO
We invite you to sing
along with some of our music!
Here are a variety of files to listen to
and/or sing along with,
mp3 files from IGQ's past
recordings - some practice, some
performance, to listen to,
pdf files from our
repertoire which give our settings of the
music, plus words,
midi files created from the
music software we use, and
capx files from which the
pdfs are created, and which are readable to
sing along with,
using Capella Reader...
Capella Reader is a free programme for
cap
and capx files
which lets you listen to,
sing along with, extract your part - treble,
alto, tenor, or bass -
It will also read
Music XML files and MIDI files
Download it here -
it's free !!
https://www.capella-software.com/us/index.cfm/products/capella-reader/info-capella-reader/
(this is an updated address)
The above link takes
you to the Capella Reader
You need the version for PCs, not MAC
version.
Follow
the
moving cursor as it plays. This will enable
you to sing along!
These Capella files (.capx) should now open
in Capella Reader:
The capx
files will usually appear at the bottom left
of this page when you click the link
You may need to click the file after it
appears to get it to open in Capella Reader.
It is best to download, and install,
Capella Reader
first !
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Immanuel's Ground at their Concert The
Path to Waterloo
at Northgate Church, Warwick on Saturday
20th June 2015 |
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The Path to Waterloo |
various |
About the first 30 minutes of Part One of the
concert on 20th June 2015 |
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Anthem - I will sing unto the Lord, set for
Country Quires
and especially for Immanuel's Ground West
Gallery Quire of Warwick
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Bruce Randall, of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, America |
Video of the first public performance of the
Anthem given by Immanuel's Ground at their
Concert The Path to Waterloo at
Northgate Church, Warwick on Saturday 20th
June 2015, held in aid of the charity
Help for Heroes for whom over £1,000
was raised.
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Anthem |
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A 9 e |
Vital spark of heav'nly
flame |
Edward Harwood |
Anthem - Religious Ode |
Full score
Treble / Tenor
Alto
Bass |
Both |
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mid
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capx
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capx
capx |
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A 78 |
I heard a great voice |
William Billings |
short Anthem |
Funeral Anthem |
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capx |
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A 16 |
O praise the Lord |
Unknown - Catsfield, Sussex MS |
Anthem with fugues |
Hymn from 150th Psalm |
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mid |
capx |
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A 72 |
Although the Fig Tree |
John Beaumont |
short Anthem |
The Barren Fig Tree |
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mp3 |
mid |
capx |
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P 48 B |
My
God, my God, O tell me
why |
Benjamin Cooke |
Verse Anthem from
Psalm 22 |
The Complaint of the Righteous |
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D 3 |
Now lettest thou thy servant depart in
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Canticle, from Luke |
Nunc Dimittis |
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D 19 |
O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands |
Thomas Clark |
Canticle/Ps 100 Prose |
Jubilate Deo |
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MC-194 |
Now lettest thou thy servant depart in
peace |
William Jackson |
Canticle, from Luke |
Nunc Dimittis in Eb |
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pdf |
MC-194 |
Now lettest thou thy servant depart in
peace |
William Jackson |
Canticle, from
Luke
a second version |
Nunc Dimittis in Eb |
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H 10 B |
Grace 'tis a charming
sound |
Thomas Clark |
Psalm 33 NV |
Cranbrook (On Ilkla'
Moor...) |
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H 103 |
Who are these like stars appearing |
Darmstadt Gesangbuch, 1698 |
Hymn |
All Saints Old |
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H 114 |
This is the field, the
world below |
MS from the
Yorks / Lancs borders - Unknown composer |
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Harvest Home
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Treble is a close second ! |
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Gibralter |
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H 78 |
The Lord my Shepherd is |
Thomas Firth |
Psalm 23 Watts |
Wigan |
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H 123 |
There is a land of pure
delight |
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P 14 |
Weep not or me you standers by |
Jno Symons |
Shropshire Funeral Hymn |
Ps 15 or to the Funeral |
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Psalms |
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P 14 |
Weep not or me you standers by |
Jno Symons |
Shropshire Funeral Hymn |
Ps 15 or to the Funeral |
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P 82 |
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Joseph Key |
Psalm 150 NV |
Psalm CL (150)
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P 84 |
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Thomas Clark |
Psalm 33 NV |
Psalm 33 |
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P 139 |
Ye boundless realms of joy |
Rev John Darwell |
Psalm 148 NV |
Darwell's 148th |
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P 154 |
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Psalm 104 NV |
Deptford |
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Cookfield |
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Lydia |
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Thomas Campion |
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Babylon Streams |
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Psalter |
Save me O God |
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Psalm 69 NV |
Psalm 69 |
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Psalter |
Through all the changing scenes of life |
Joseph Stephenson |
Psalm 34 NV |
Psalm 34 |
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H 19 |
Never weather-beaten sail |
Thomas Campion |
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H 19 |
Never weather-beaten sail |
Thomas Campion |
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Many of these files are those from IGQ
singing as part of Oxford Occasionals and
Oxford Psalmody in Oxford University
chapels,
and the University Church of St Mary the
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Now shall my inward joys arise |
WIlliam Billings |
Sacred Harp 178 |
Africa |
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Why do we mourn departing friends |
Timothy Swan |
Sacred Harp 163 B |
China |
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Glorious things of thee are spoken |
Tennesse Harmony |
Sacred Harp 148 |
Jefferson |
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The Lord is risen indeed! |
WIlliam Billings |
Sacred Harp 236 |
Easter Anthem |
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Life is the time to serve the Lord |
Israel Holdroyd |
Sacred Harp 28 B |
Wells |
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David the King |
Billings |
Sacred Harp 268 |
David's Lamentation |
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David the King |
Billings - 2nd version |
Sacred Harp 268 |
David's Lamentation |
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Here's my heart, my loving
Jesus |
Pietro Guglielmi, arr. |
Sacred Harp 361 |
Loving Jesus |
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How long, dear Saviour O how long |
Jeremiah Ingalls |
Sacred Harp 155 |
Northfield |
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From all that dwell below the skies |
Lewis Edson |
Sacred Harp 276 |
Bridgewater |
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Will God for ever cast us off? |
from Bay Psalm Book 1698 |
Sacred Harp 49 B |
Mear |
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Unshaked as the sacred hill |
Bruce Randall, 1985 |
Sacred Harp 474 |
Mount Desert |
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The day is past and gone |
Stephen Jenks |
Sacred Harp 209 |
Evening Shade |
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Waft her gently through the skies |
G F Handel |
Aria from Jeptha |
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While Shepherds watched |
Brady |
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would like any further details, or would like adding
to our circulation list,
please
contact us
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Picture - Rachel Conlon
Immanuel's Ground is a
Quire based in Warwick, was formed in the
Autumn of 2001, and draws members from the "Heart of
England", which, generally speaking, is Oxfordshire,
Northants, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. We also have
members from further afield.
As a
costumed quire, we sing music from the
West Gallery period,
ie roughly between 1725 and 1850, this including not only the
sacred music sung in rural parish churches, so well recorded by
Thomas Hardy in
Under the Greenwood Tree, but also secular
part-songs, glees and catches, and the popular music of the
period, with especial emphasis on
local
composers and musicians. This is accompanied by a small
number of instruments such as would have been found in any
village band of that time.
The other part of
our repertoire comes from a parallel and living singing
tradition in America, and especially New England, that of
shapenote music,
with its exciting and sometimes unexpected harmonies,
kept alive
since the time of the earliest settlers. We also include some of
the new compositions still being written today.
We take part in concerts, church services
(usually a form of evening service), carols - concerts, services
and pub sessions - and are happy to
share the music with
local choirs by workshops and other participatory events, either
on their own or as a prelude to a shared service. Local
historical material is included wherever possible.
See where we shall be in the coming
months.
Unfortunately,
because of the pandemic, all our concerts and practices
have been cancelled for the
forseeable future. We miss our music!
We would like to encourage
additional players of appropriate instruments (strings,
bassoon, clarinet, flute etc), and singers -
particularly MALE TENORS in order to strengthen the lead
lines. Much of the music is tenor-led, i.e., the tune
is sung by the Tenors, and the Trebles have a very
important counterpoint.
Do come along to a practice and see just how different
this music
is; details of how to contact us can be
found here.
Our repertoire and details of concerts and workshops,
etc, can be
found here.
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Before &
After |
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The Quire in 1891
The Quire in May 2016 at
Stoneleigh |
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When Musick's notes with steps already move Thro' virtue's paths, and breathe with heav'nly
love, The rapt'rous mind from earthly mansions flies, And soars aloft above the starry skies.
Extract from
Thomas Collins' Book of Psalmody
Nuneaton 1774
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