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.
Vicar (part - time) of the Welland Foss Benefice
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...
Preudio - Allegro - Postlude Hagg - A wooded enclosure (of Scandinavian origin: hogg - to hew) Written in 2016 From 'Music for Solo...
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...
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...
A ‘Quaker Trod’, or alternately a ‘Quaker Causeway’, is a pathway made of stone slabs laid across the moorland of North Yorkshire. There...
Alternately known as the 'Resignation' Overture'.
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...
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...
Wardlaw Hill is the site of an ancient hill fort overlooking the Nith estuary. In times gone by the Maxwell Clan from nearby Caerlaverock...
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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Also known as The Rector's Excuse Me. From 'Music for Solo Violin Volume II: North Yorkshire, and a Scottish Excursion' at Lulu.com
The Banks of Green Willow Or St Cecilia or The Power of Music George Butterworth noted down the folk tune ‘The banks of Green Willow’ as...
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Aysgarth Falls on the River Ure in North Yorkshire is an impressive triple flight of falls and broad pools. The music is a little sketch,...
For Trinity Sunday, a piece of music with three parts. Capriccio on the hymn tune 'Thou whose Almighty Word', for String Trio. By Stephen...