Rev Stephen Gamble
Capriccio on a Slow Air, for Oboe, Violin, Viola & Cello, by Stephen Gamble
The Slow Air on which this Capriccio is based is called 'Westgate Carr Road', and was written by me. The music is a capriccio in that it...
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REV STEPHEN GAMBLE
Music, sermons, notes & videos of my dogs.
Having originally started with posting sermons on this Blog I branched out to include videos of my dogs, articles I have written, and some of my music.
The things I write are as full of inelegance and error as any other quality I may rather they posses, but they may possibly be useful or even entertaining to you - maybe if only to take issue with what I have said.
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Rev Stephen Gamble
Westgate Carr Road, Slow Air for Solo Violin, by Stephen Gamble. #Violin #fiddle #musicforsoloviolin
Westgate Carr Road is a long straight lane, lined by ditches, and punctuated by occasional farm and domestic buildings. It doesn't really...
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‘Tombeau des Regrets’
This piece of music was inspired by ‘Tombeau des Regrets’ by the French Baroque composer, Sainte Colombe - not so much the music of that...
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Bagatelle for Oboe and Viola, 'To those who Dwell in Realms of Day', by Stephen Gamble.
The history of this piece of music is curious. I wrote it in 2007 for solo violin and submitted it for examination instead of an essay. I...
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Lament for a Silent Spring, by Stephen Gamble
'Silent Spring' is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson, published in 1962. The book details the devastating effects of...
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Sonata Concitato, Temperato e Molle, by Stephen Gamble
.Sonata Concitato, Temperato e Molle (Solo Violin Sonata No 4) Back in 2004 I read about Monteverdi’s (1565 – 1643) theory that music...
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Book Launch.
When publishing a book I believe it is customary to have a ‘book launch’, this usually involves a party, drinks and nibbles, invited...
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Daydream No 3 (Beside the Beck), by Stephen Gamble
A beck is a stream, the word is commonly used across northern England and is of Norse origin. I find out of the way becks are a good...
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Two Little Sketches for Solo Violin: Lowna Mill and and the Dove in Spate, by Stephen Gamble
Lowna Mill is in Farndale, by the river Dove. A gently beautiful place lined with wild daffodils in the spring, but I have seen the Dove...
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The Skipster Hagg Jigg, by Stephen Gamble.
Preudio - Allegro - Postlude Hagg - A wooded enclosure (of Scandinavian origin: hogg - to hew) Written in 2016 From 'Music for Solo...
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Sonata No 7 for Solo Violin, “The Relics of Nicholas Postgate”
In the summer of 2011 I visited St Hedda’s Church at Egton Bridge and was very moved by the relics and story of Nicholas Postgate, a...
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Music for Solo Violin Vol 1 North Yorkshire
I have revised my book of violin music, now it has a ring binder spine so is easier to use, and I have improved the presentation from...
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The Quaker Trod.
A ‘Quaker Trod’, or alternately a ‘Quaker Causeway’, is a pathway made of stone slabs laid across the moorland of North Yorkshire. There...
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Overture in the Manner of a Kleist Short Story. By Stephen Gamble
Alternately known as the 'Resignation' Overture'.
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St Dunstan's Chapel. Toccata for Solo Violin, by Stephen Gamble.
St Dunstan's is a side chapel in Leicester Cathedral, it is a quiet place for prayer and reflection. For two years I worked as a verger...
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‘On Rudland Rigg’.
Rudland Rigg is a pathway across the North Yorkshire Moors. It climbs up high onto the moor-tops, a bleak and open landscape covered only...
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March of the Wardlaw Maxwells, by Stephen Gamble.
Wardlaw Hill is the site of an ancient hill fort overlooking the Nith estuary. In times gone by the Maxwell Clan from nearby Caerlaverock...
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Angus Mackay's Last Strathspey, by Stephen Gamble
Angus Mackay (1812 - 1859) was Household Piper to Queen Victoria. He was born on Raasay, an island off the northwest coast of Scotland,...
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