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west gallery music en · NOUN

Etymology

Alluding to traditional church galleries that faced the altar, and from which the choir would perform.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Georgian psalmody, a form of sacred music sung and played in Church of England parish churches, as well as nonconformist chapels, from 1700 to around 1850, and revived in the late 1980s.