The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society
The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, founded in 1888, exists to promote the performance and study of liturgical chant and medieval polyphony, through the publication of editions, facsimiles and scholarly articles, and through educational and liaison events.
New members are always welcome, and membership includes a subscription to the Society’s twice-yearly journal, invitations to the Society's events and discounts on many of the Society's publications.
Find out how membership of the Society can benefit you, whether you are a choir director, member of the clergy, performing musician interested in early music, or a scholar or student of music or liturgy.
Dr Mary Berry, 1917–2008
The Society is sad to record the death of Dr Mary Berry CBE (Mother Thomas More) on 1 May. She was one of the great ambassadors of plainsong, a wonderful animateur of workshops, and director of her own Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge which brought so many singers to experience the chant first-hand. Engagement with the sources and with the notation was a notable feature of her practical work, even with beginners. Her enthusiasm, her scholarship and her spirituality will be much missed.