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The Dance At The Phoenix

The Dance at the Phoenix
Village Band Music from Hardy's Wessex and Beyond, with Songs and Poems

Sample Tracks:
Track One - Major Malley's Reel
Track Seventeen - The Choirmaster's Burial & Winterbourne Tune

Ghosts & Lovers
Shocking Stories, Wicked Songs & Wild Tunes

Sample Tracks:
Track 1 - Lord Strange
Track 11 - As Pants The Hart
 
 

Ghosts & Lovers

Glad Tidings - A West Gallery Christmas
Including some of our best-loved Christmas carols as they would have been heard in Thomas Hardy's time, featuring the voices of Viven Ellis, Helen Chadwick, Jeremy Avis and Ian Giles

Sample Tracks:
Track 1 - Portugal New
Track 4 - Sir Roger de Coverley

Glad Tidings

Coming Soon - The Leaves of Life
Christmas Music in English Tradition, from Carols to Revels & from Alehouse to Church Gallery

THE CHRISTMINSTER SINGERS
Oxfordshire’s West Gallery Choir, directed by Dave Townsend

William Knapp
West Gallery Anthems & Psalms by the influential eighteenth-century Dorset composer

Let the Echo Fly
The Story of West Gallery Music from its roots in the sixteenth century to the present day


All the above CDs - £12.50

Dave Townsend’s English Dance Music Vol 1

130 Jigs, Polkas, Hornpipes, Schottisches and Waltzes played on concertina and accordion
Double CD - £18.00
SPECIAL OFFER - buy this CD and the accompanying book for just £25.00

BOOKS

The Mellstock Carols, edited by Dave Townsend
20 West Gallery Carols from the Hardy MSS and other Dorset sources. (2nd. Edition, revised & enlarged)
£8.50

The West Gallery Companion, edited by Dave Townsend
21 Psalms, Hymns & Anthems from the Country Psalmody Tradition
£8.50

The Village Band Book Vols 1 & 2
English Dance Tunes & Marches arranged by Dave Townsend in three, four or five parts
£8.50 per Volume

Dave Townsend’s English Dance Music Vols 1 & 2
130 tunes in each volume, with chord arrangements and variants
£9.50 per Volume

Please send your order, with remittance, to:
Serpent Press
22 Swinbourne Road
Littlemore
OXFORD
OX4 4PQ

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