Published articles

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2025

New! Special issue: Cathedral Music Trust Conference 2024: New Generation Perspectives

We’re delighted to be publishing papers originally presented at the 2024 conference of Cathedral Music Trust.

Editorial, Nicholas Bannan, Guest Editor

268	Diverse people inhabiting praise together, Peter Gunstone
274	Harmony in diversity: the societal impact of Liverpool Cathedral’s egalitarian music outreach programme, Simone Krüger Bridge
286	Grace and tradition: spiritualities in cathedral music, Reverend Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE
302	Liturgical music and embodied spiritualisation, Denise Stobart
308	An exploration of choral evensong, Meg Rees
315	The vocal health status of lay clerks, Isobel Frances Chesman
326	Pupils, primers and potential, Hannah Deasy
332	Pilgrimages to English cathedrals, Hanna Rijken

2024

243	Small choirs, big boys and Bach, Martin Ashley
254	Bel Canto and the boy soprano, Stephen Beet

From 2023 the journal moved to a continuous rolling system of articles, rather than issue-based.

2023

205	Voices and instruments: the period-performance dilemma, Nicholas Kenyon
210	Singing Renaissance choral music then and now, Simon Ravens
226	The phrased notation system: a new beginning for Renaissance polyphony? Kevin O’Carroll

October 2021

Editorial, Martin Ashley

115	Nature or Nurture? An investigation into the singing voices of untrained boys and girls with reference to the English choral tradition, Nick Graham
138	Voice change and the professional girl chorister, Sarah MacDonald and Lucy Poole
155	You want Mädchen in a Knabenchor? A semantic or an existential crisis? Martin Ashley
166	The Culture Code: implications for choral leadership, Liz Garnett
182	Interactive music and the public internet; why milliseconds matter, David Lake

May 2020

Editorial, Martin Ashley

001	The functions and effects of verbal imagery in choral rehearsals, Mary Black.
017	The development of a vocal warm-up resource for busy teachers: creating a set of warm-up resource cards for teachers and directors of children’s choirs, Olivia Sparkhall.
033	Boiling frogs and tipping points: which sung pitch range is best for boys during voice change? Jenevora Williams
041	Pitch, pedagogy and performance: demographic structure and vocal blending in an English cathedral boys’ choir, Martin Ashley
058	Findings from a survey of pitch drift, Richard Seaton, Allan Jones, Dennis Pim and David Sharp
071	Boys’ voices, lads’ voices: Benjamin Britten and the Ragazzo sound, Jim Coyle
094	Influences on pitching variation in a cappella choral singing, David Howard and Sigi Overy
103	Communication for conductors: insights from qualitative research, Michael Bonshor