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.
Vicar (part - time) of the Welland Foss Benefice


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...

"April is the cruelest month" TS Eliot
I think the beginning of Spring is hard, the clocks have changed, April has come round, it's a bit warmer but still chilly at times, and...

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...

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...

Sunday the 17th of March 2019 to Tuesday the 17th of March 2020.
Sunday the 17th of March 2019 was the last time I took a church service, which as I begin to write this is a year ago today. Having...

Through Lent to Easter
Though in a bare and rugged way through devious lonely wilds I stray, thy bounty shall my pains beguile; the barren wilderness shall...

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...

Overture in the Manner of a Kleist Short Story. By Stephen Gamble
Alternately known as the 'Resignation' Overture'.

Deo Volente
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.”...

Bartok Ears.
Remembering Bartok Or Proposing a Hypothetical Correlation between Ear Size and Misfortunes in Canines. Bartok, it seems, had the ears of...

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...

Who has known the mind of the Lord?
In response to my announcement that due to ill health I am stepping down as Rector of Kirklington, Burneston, Wath and Pickhill many...

Landscape, History, Jesus and the Bible.
Or Walking with WG Hoskins. “…many parts of the English landscape remain just as our forefathers left a long time ago. It is to these...

Small Velocity.
Wilfrid although very small can proceed with great velocity when he is inclined to do so. The shortness of his legs combined with their...

Dog Solutions.
(in no particular order) Lick it Growl at it Bark at it Bite it Wag at it Run away Wee on it #dogsolutions #dogs

Two Definitions of Music.
Merriam Webster Online Dictionary. a: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal...

Fruit Salads and Black Jacks.
Fruit Salads and Black Jacks. Or Becoming like a Little Child. Fruit Salads and Black Jacks, small wrapped sweeties. I used to buy them...

Early Evening Autumn light.
Early on an autumn evening the low sunlight fades thin casting long shadows and touching the landscape with mild luminosity. The air is...

‘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...












