The story
Alluding to traditional church galleries that faced the altar, and from which the choir would perform.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
west gallery music
Today it means: 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. Full definition →