Bell, John 1852-f1901 Scotland Renfrewshire, Gourock - ?, ?
organist, choral conductor, accountant by profession, studied music from an early age and became A.Mus (Associate in Music), T.C.L. (licentiate Trinity College London), F.F.S.C.(?), 1884-1887 BM, 1890 MM and 1893 DM from Trinity College in Toronto Canada, 1861 residing with his widowed mother at 8 Kempock Street in Gourock, 1871 with his mother at 40 Shamrock Street in Glasgow St George, 1881 single as accountant with his mother boarding at 7 Cathedral Street in Glasgow St David, 1891 single as accountant with his mother boarding at 3 Holmhead Street in Glasgow St David, 1901 single as accountant at 5 India Street in Glasgow St Matthew, 1885-1889 music critic for the North British Daily Mail, 1885-1900 organized and conducted the Select Choir in Glasgow, organist or conductor of psalmody in Westbourne Free Church, Springburn Parish Church, 1887 Anderston Parish Church and St Vincent Parish Church all in Glasgow, conductor of the Glasgow Temperance Choral Society, Cathcart Musical Association, 1891 Vale of Leven Choral Society, Carluke Choral Society and 1895-1896 St Andrew's Musical Association, 23.aug.1888 not a professional musician he conducted his Select Choir at the opening of the Glasgow International Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park, 14.jan.1890 director of music at the annual meeting of the masonic Provincial Grand Lodge of Roxburgh and Selkirk, 14.mar.1891 he conducted the 70 voice Vale of Leven Choral Society in a performance of 'The Messiah' at Alexandria Public Hall, 24.mar.1898 he gave an organ recital at St Vincent, 26.may.1900 for the appointments at Bellshill Academy he was qualified to take Drawing and Singing and slightly acquainted with French, 17.nov.1900 he conducted his St Andrew's Select Choir at the Pailsky Corporation Concerts at Clark Town Hall, after this event nothing is heard of him anymore in Glasgow ; son of blacksmith John Bell (Gourock 1824-b1861 Gourock) and seamstress/draper Sarah (Dunbartonshire, Renton 1824-a1891 Glasgow)

Title Parts
 
[] The skye boat song. Part song. Choir
sung by the Select Choir at the opening of the Glasgow International Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park 23aug1888

[] Cam' ye by Athole. Part song. Choir
sung by the Select Choir at the opening of the Glasgow International Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park 23aug1888

[] Who shall win my lady fair. Part song. Choir
sung by the Select Choir at the opening of the Glasgow International Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park 23aug1888

[] You stole my love. Part song. Choir
sung by the Select Choir at the opening of the Glasgow International Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park 23aug1888

[] Lochnagar
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1888
sung by the Select Choir at the opening of the Glasgow International Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park 23aug1888

[] Auld Lang Syne
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1888
sung by the Select Choir at the opening of the Glasgow International Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park 23aug1888

[] Pibroch o'Donuil Dhu (Robin Adair). Mixed choir
arranged by J. Bell, Mus. Bac.
pub "Scottish part songs", Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1887/1890

[] The piper o' Dundee. 1890
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1890

[] O are ye sleeping Maggie?. 1890
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1890

[] Scotland yet. 1890
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1890

[] Psalm 145 for soli, double chorus and orchestra. 1893
composed for the Mus.Doc degree at Trinity College Toronto 1893

[] We' a hundred pipers. Part song. Choir. b1894
according to Stratton 1897 he arranged some 150 anthems and part songs, so the following compositions/arrangements are possibly all from before 1897
[] Ye banks and braes
words Robert Burns, arr J. Bell
pub "Scottish part songs", Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Banks o' Allan Water
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The Battle of Sheriffmair
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The Bay of Biscay
published together with The bailiff's daughter by Barbara Allen
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The better land
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Blue bonnets over the border
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Bonnie Mary of Argyle
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Bonnie wee thing
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Braw, braw lads
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Caller herrin!
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The Campbells are coming
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Cam'ye by Athole?
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Clara Nolan's ball
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Come, lasses and lads
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Come o'er the moonlit sea
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Come where my love
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Com rigs
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Cuckoo's song
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Doun the burn, Davie
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Duncan Gray
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] For the sake of somebody
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The gallant weaver
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Gipsie's laughing trio
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Gloomy winter's noo awa
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Green grow the rashes
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The Guardship
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Hard times, come again, nomore
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] A Highland lad
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Hymn of death
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] I love the Highlands
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] John Anderson my Jo
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Johnnie Cope
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Kate O'Shane
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Kathleen Mavourneen. (Cromh.)
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The Laird o' Cockpen
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Last May a braw wooer
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The lea rig
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Let Erin remember
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] A Life on the ocean wave
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Macgregor's gathering
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] A man's a man
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Marching through Georgia. I'se gwine back to Dixie
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] March of the Cameron Men
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Massa's in de cold ground
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] My brown-haired maiden
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] My faithful fair one
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] My heart's in the Highlands
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] My love she's but a lassie yet
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] My old Kentucky home. Male voice
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] O' a' the airts
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] O' Aye waukin
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] O, gie my love brose and butter
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] O gin I vere a baron's heir
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] O gin I were where Gadie Rins
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Old Scotch sangs
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] O Nannie wilt thou gang?
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] O Steer my bark
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Roy's wife o' Aldivalloch
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Rule Britannia
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Scots wha hae
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The Scottish emigrant's farewell
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The sea is England's glory
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Smile and sag thou'lt. Male voice
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Standard on the braes o' Mar
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Sunshine
pub E. Ascherberg & Co., London b1906

[] Tak' your auld cloak aboot ye
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Thou'rt my own (Stu me run)
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Three blind mice
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The three crows
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] The tocherless lass
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] To Mary in heaven
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Watch by the Rhine. Male voice
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] We will up and march away
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Where has Scotland found her fame
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Vocal fantasia on Scottish songs. Mixed choir
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Vocal fantasia on English songs. Mixed choir
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906

[] Vocal fantasia on Irish songs. Mixed choir
arranged by John Bell, Mus. Doc.
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906
[] 1 - Saint Patrick's day
[] 2 - The wearin' of the green
[] 3 - The bowld sojer boy
[] 4 - A place in thy memory
[] 5 - St Patrick was a gentleman
[] Vocal fantasia on British songs. Mixed choir
arranged by John Bell
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow b1906
St. James Choir, Auckland, New Zealand
Beresford Street Congregational Church Choir, Auckland, New Zealand
[] 1 - God save our King
[] 2 - The guardship
[] 3 - Hearts of oak
[] 4 - British grenadiers
[] 5 - Rule Britannia
[] 6 - Auld acquaintance
[] Maccrimmon's lament. Part-song
words translated by L. MacBean, arranged by J. Bell
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1911

[] Thou art so near and yet so far. Four-part song
words by J. Oxenford, arranged by J. Bell
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1911

[] The Cuckoo song. Four-part song
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 1911

[] Scottish to the core. Mixed choir and piano
words and melody J. M. Leslie, choral arrangement John Bell, Mus. Doc.
pub "Scottish part songs", Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 191?

[] Rob Roy music
edited and arranged by John Bell, Mus. Doc.
pub "Scottish part songs", Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 19??

[] Kathleen Mavoureen. Mixed choir and piano
music F. N. Crouch, arranged for SATB by John Bell
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 19??

[] Blue bonnets over the border
arranged by John Bell
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 19??

[] O rest in the Lord, from Mendelssohn's Elijah
arranged as an anthem by John Bell
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 19??

[] Come where my love lies dreaming. TTBB Choir
pub "English Folk songs", Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 19??

[] My old Kentucky home. TTBB Choir
arranged for male voices by John Bell
pub Bayley & Ferguson, London / Glasgow 19??

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