The Church Music Society
Registered Charity No. 290309
President: The Most Reverend Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham
Welcome
The CMS exists to promote the use of church music of the highest quality for the diverse needs of the Christian Church.
We seek to enable performers and worship leaders, composers and scholars, by publishing church music, new and old, not otherwise commercially available, and by providing a platform for research and educational material.
Annual General Meeting 2022
Saturday 15 October 2022
St Wilfrid's Hall, The London Oratory, Brompton Road from 3.00 pm2
by kind permission. Click here for details.
News and Updates
New Publications include the Litany to the Holy Spirit by Christopher Ouvry-Johns (b. 1975), and a revised edition of Watkins Shaw's classic volume of Preces & Responses. This new edition (with the 1662 adaptations removed) also contains the Preces & Responses by Tallis adapted for four voices, and settings of the Lord's Prayer by Stone and Morley. An array of supplementary material can be found on the Commentaries page.- Dr Francis Jackson CBE, Senior Vice-President of the Church Music Society, 2 October 1917-10 January 2022
- CMS Newsletter December 2021
- New President, Honorary Patrons and Vice-Presidents
Publications
Music for the liturgical year from All Saints through Advent and Christmas to the Presentation of Christ. The CMS has a rich and varied selection of music for All Saints, All Souls, Remembrance Sunday, Christ the King, Advent, St Cecilia, Christmas, Epiphany and the Presentation of Christ for a wide range of musical resources. Click here for details.
Forthcoming publications include the Epiphany Respond Reges Tharsis by John Sheppard, a volume of music for Upper Voices from the charity institutions of Georgian London, the alternative Evening Canticles for double choir by Frederick Ouseley, and a further volume of settings of Preces & Responses.
Free Music Downloads
In an important new development in the provision of its service to church music, the CMS is now making music submitted by members of the Society - original works, editions and arrangements - available on its website for downloading, free of charge, for liturgical use only.
Lectures and Papers
Our Lectures and Papers resource has been now been expanded by the addition of scans of several CMS lectures and papers from the last forty years. There is also a newly submitted paper by our General Editor - Psalms and Hymns in the early nineteenth century: the collections of Jane Clarke and Theophania Cecil – within which are examined the contents of two publications associated with the fashionable chapels-of-ease within the central London parishes of Marylebone and Holborn.
Please read our ‘Membership’ page and consider taking up the benefits of becoming a member of the Society.
Please visit our ‘Catalogue’ through which you can order our titles from our publishers, Oxford University Press, or from Banks Music Publications (with 25% discount from Banks if a Society member).
