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Origin and Progress of the Meeting of the Three Choirs of Glouchester, Worcester & Hereford, and of the Charity Connected with It

Origin and Progress of the Meeting of the Three Choirs of Glouchester, Worcester & Hereford, and of the Charity Connected with It

Lysons, Daniel

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ISBN10: 1235773760
ISBN13: 9781235773761
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.25 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1895 Excerpt: ... 13 ANNALS OF THE MUSIC MEETING. JT has been already mentioned that the Meeting of the Three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford, originated in a compact entered into by the members of certain musical clubs or societies in those cities, to make an annual visit to each other in rotation, and continue together two days, for improving themselves in harmony, by the performance of several concerts of music. These clubs consisted chiefly of members of the several choirs, with the addition of a few amateurs of music, in the several cities and their immediate neighbourhood.1 It is in vain that I have endeavoured, in either of these cities, to trace anything like the time of their first establishment. The only document I could procure was a book of 1 Musical clubs existed in these cities anterior to the time of the first Meeting of the Choirs, and there is strong evidence to prove that they were in nowise connected. In the extracts from Mr. Lysons's family account book (see next note) corroborated in l art by the minute liook of the Gloucester Club a few years later, it is shown that the subscription to the club was 24s., and to the Music Meeting 10s. (id. per annum. Again, the list of the club for 1749 and subsequent years does not contain the name of any one member of the choir, two minor canons and the organist were the only Cathedral members connected with it. Lastly, the minute bcok of the Club for the years above mentioned, shews that the usual weekly meetings were only interrupted when the Three Choirs met at Gloucester; they were held in the intermediate years without interruption. accounts of the musical club at Hereford, from the 12th of February, 1723, to November, 1733.1 It is certain, however, that they must have existed long before the year 17...

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