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.
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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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Vicar (part - time) of the Welland Foss Benefice
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General Ludd's Jig
I am interested in the way folk songs, and folk music, often deal with dark subjects in humorous ways, and the invention of the folk hero...

Kyrie for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello - by Stephen Gamble
The music follows the structure of the prayer Kyrie Eleison - Christie Eleison - Kryie Eleison Lord have Mercy - Christ have Mercy - Lord...

The Great Fryup Hornpipe, live version
Turns out I can play it if I don't wait till evening to have a go. Not play it well, but passable if you squint with your ears.

The Great Fryup Hornpipe, by Stephen Gamble
Great Fryup Dale is on the North York Moors. The name comes from the Old English Freya's Hop (hop meaning a dale).

Found by a Stream
This beautiful little fossil is unimaginably old, no doubt a geologist could tell me how old, but imagination and measurement don't...

Folk Sonata No4, for Solo Violin: The Leyburn Shawl, by Stephen Gamble.
The Leyburn Shawl is a path that runs along the limestone escarpment just outside the North Yorkshire town of Leyburn. There’s an old...

Clouds Across the Moon
Sketch for Horn, Violin, Flute, Viola, and Cello, by Stephen Gamble "More the expression of feeling than painting" Beethoven Instruments...

The Rosedale Round Howe: Duetto Dance for Violin and Viola, by Stephen Gamble
I had a go at a social media challenge to write a piece of music in 60 minutes - this is the result. 50 minutes to sketch on paper, then...

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...

This transitory life.
We humbly beseech Thee, of Thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and succour all them who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow,...

Thoughts on the Good Samaritan as Seen Through a Church Window.
The Most Reverend and the Most Irreverent. Or What I saw in Church. Words, picture, and reading by Stephen Gamble (You may go now)

Thoughts on Forgiveness.
Those who Trespass against us. Or Terriers Barking The other day I was walking the dogs out through the field, intending to head out the...

Altitude and Attitude.
High Askew late one autumn afternoon, below the vale was thick with fog, a reminder that sometimes you have to climb to see clearly.

Prayer is working with God.
Putting your Shoulders to the Task, or Why Pray? Imagine a farm yard around the end of the eighteen hundreds, with a stone built firm set...

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...

‘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...

Change and Decay in Eternity.
Thoughts beside an Ancient Church. Church buildings are temporal memorials to eternal truths. They are built to mark out and protect a...

On Providence and the Bible.
On Providence and the Bible. Or What I don’t Understand and What I Do Not. This is my Study Bible. Back in my early twenties the Vicar of...

Dogs Play Fight II
Hector and Wilfrid (he's the little one) play fighting. I put up a video of them fighting by the sofa before, but then recently I found...








