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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Alec Rowley, mid-20th century British composer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>two more beautiful performances!&nbsp; looking forward to more <i class="far fa-smile smiley"></i></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Alec Rowley, mid-20th century British composer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I like these pieces. The first one is really surprising, enigmatic and extraordinary, in a good way. The second one is, to me, almost hypnotic. very inventive. And the pictures goes well with the music.</p><p> Alec Rowley was also an organist, an organist at several London churches, a fine organist, having gained his FRCO by the time he was 16.<br />Rowley&#039;s setting sticks pretty much to the modal harmonies, devoid of his usual chromaticism, and the writing is quite mystical in the overall effect.</p><p>I have found the scores/Sheets to 7 organ pieces but,&nbsp; &nbsp;unfortunately,&nbsp; they are not public domain in my counrty, he died 1958, so I can not use them in the forum (Rules Modartt: ……..not to share copyright protected files unless you are the copyright holder yourself or have the direct permission from the copyright holder to do so)</p><p>Well, I have access to about 100 scores of different composer,s organ music, public domain, so it&#039;s enough for my lifetime <i class="far fa-smile smiley"></i></p></blockquote></div><p>Thanks, glad you are enjoying them.&nbsp; Rowley definitely had more fame in his time as an organist than as a pianist (although he had a long-running BBC show featuring piano duets).&nbsp; IMSLP has 45 Rowley compositions for organ, only 29 for piano.&nbsp; I have found other Rowley scores at <a href="https://www.pianorarescores.com">Piano Rare Scores</a>, and I see that the same outfit has <a href="https://www.organrarescores.com">Organ Rare Scores</a> (no Rowley there, however).&nbsp; I have no experience with the organ, so I&#039;m waiting to win one of the big prizes in the annual competition <i class="far fa-smile-wink smiley"></i> to spring for Organteq.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Alec Rowley, mid-20th century British composer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>ctdeupree wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Another impressionist set by Alec Rowley, here is <strong>Two Twilight Pieces</strong>, originally published in 1932.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/9s8K7XyBLk0?si=UA6D978x3EuZ7OeZ">Two Twilight Pieces by Alec Rowley</a></p></blockquote></div><br /><p>Hello ctdeupree,</p><p>I like these pieces. The first one is really surprising, enigmatic and extraordinary, in a good way. The second one is, to me, almost hypnotic. very inventive. And the pictures goes well with the music.</p><p> Alec Rowley was also an organist, an organist at several London churches, a fine organist, having gained his FRCO by the time he was 16.<br />Rowley&#039;s setting sticks pretty much to the modal harmonies, devoid of his usual chromaticism, and the writing is quite mystical in the overall effect.</p><p>I have found the scores/Sheets to 7 organ pieces but,&nbsp; &nbsp;unfortunately,&nbsp; they are not public domain in my counrty, he died 1958, so I can not use them in the forum (Rules Modartt: ……..not to share copyright protected files unless you are the copyright holder yourself or have the direct permission from the copyright holder to do so)</p><p>Well, I have access to about 100 scores of different composer,s organ music, public domain, so it&#039;s enough for my lifetime <i class="far fa-smile smiley"></i></p><p>Thanks for sharing these Alec Rowley pieces, they are a bit special.<br />Keep going!</p><p>Best wishes,</p><p>Stig</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Alec Rowley, mid-20th century British composer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Another impressionist set by Alec Rowley, here is <strong>Two Twilight Pieces</strong>, originally published in 1932.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/9s8K7XyBLk0?si=UA6D978x3EuZ7OeZ">Two Twilight Pieces by Alec Rowley</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>loved the nocturne! great playing and beautiful images.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s been a while since I worked on a new piece by Alec Rowley.&nbsp; Here is his Third Nocturne, illustrated with some pictures of our trellis of tombstone roses this spring.&nbsp; <a href="https://youtu.be/m98gGbkkpec">Nocturne No. 3 by Alec Rowley</a>.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 01:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Another Rowley composition, from 1927, <strong>Moonlight Jig</strong>.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/3p0a3XcYGBM">Moonlight Jig by Alec Rowley</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Nice easy-listening pieces. I particularly like the dance and clouds across the moon. Thanks for sharing.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 22:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Here is Rowley&#039;s Second Nocturne for piano, published in 1932.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/CMoKUh8hUu8">Nocturne No. 2, &quot;Clouds Across The Moon.&quot;</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>My brother Red is a very gifted retired software engineer.&nbsp; This spring, while he was recuperating from a fall, he wrote a visualization program which we used for the video for Rowley&#039;s <strong>Tonality Studies</strong>, originally published in 1937.&nbsp; I shipped him the individual pieces as MusicXML and Midi files, which he used for the generation of the videos.&nbsp; The piece uses the NY Steinway Classical preset.</p><p>About the <strong>Tonality Studies</strong>, Rowley wrote, &quot;There are numerous studies for the cultivation of finger facility.&nbsp; The following exercises differ from the usual scheme in that their primary object is to cultivate the aural sense; they have, consequently, been systematically arranged to cover all current idioms from modal to atonal.&quot;&nbsp; The video description contains a table of contents for the eight etudes as well as notes on the individual videos.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/YQA1m5S-xrs">Tonality Studies, op. 44, by Alec Rowley,</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>A couple more.&nbsp; Here is a Moto Perpetuo, a quick little perpetual motion piece.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/uEsupyssunQ">Moto Perpetuo</a>.</p><p>And Rowley’s first piano sonata:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/oGZu1ApPwZw">Sonata No. 1</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 03:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Alec Rowley (1892-1958) was a pianist, organist, educator and broadcaster in Britain through the mid-20th century.&nbsp; One of my projects over the last couple of years has been exploring his music, and I have posted some of these efforts on YouTube.</p><p>Here is his <strong>First Rhapsody (of Erin)</strong>, published in 1920.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/xnBuv7o-C6U">First Rhapsody (of Erin), op. 43</a></p><p>Here is a short English Country Dance piece, <strong>Polly Perkins</strong>.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/bNmr8y4kOyQ">Polly Perkins, English Country Dance</a></p><p>He also wrote five nocturnes -- here is the first one, subtitled <strong>&#039;A Shepherd did roam the hills&#039;</strong>.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/PptUIjh38wU">Nocturne No. 1</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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