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Our repertoire presently comprises west gallery carols,
together with the best known tunes in the West Gallery repertoire. It also
includes local composers and quire
masters, such as
William Perry, organist and quiremaster at the
Congregational Church, Brook Street, Warwick;
Joseph Key of
Warwick and Nuneaton, whose Psalms and Anthems stem from an earlier part
of the west gallery period;
John Hill, also of the same period as
Joseph Key, who started his musical life at Lydd in Kent, but who moved
to Rugby where much of his music was written;
William Tans'ur, baptised 1706 in Dunchurch; and
Joseph Watts
of Fenny Compton, who was one of the earliest local composers to use
fuguing tunes. Works by newly discovered composers from just over
the border in Oxfordshire,
Amram Taylor of Ambrosden, nr.
Bicester, and
Francis Saunders of Thame, were included in the 2006 Mid-Shires'
Quires' Day at Byfield, together with more favourites from the composer
Thomas Jarman, from Clipstone in Northamptonshire.
Recent additions to the repertoire comprise a growing number of Psalms from the Shape-note tradition in America, notably the early New England composers such as Daniel Read and William Billings. Performances |
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