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Carlyon de Lyle : Sea-Fret

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a 1926 musical depiction of a sea-mist cleared by a breeze, by the British composer 'Carlyon de Lyle'
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'Carlyon de Lyle' is a very evocative pseudonym used by the British composer Maud Wingate (1877-1958) for various songs and piano pieces published in the 1910s and 1920s. She was born in Lanarkshire (her father was a Scottish surgeon), but she moved to the Bristol area with her English mother after her father's early death.  In some of her pieces she collaborated with her husband 'John Alleyne' (actually John Allen Bartlett (1861-1933)), whom she married in 1922, and who was also noted as an automatic writer at séances.  It was Bartlett who wrote the prose description that appears in the score:

"Cold, sad, mysterious, the Sea-fret sweeps inland from the Northern Ocean.  A Phantom Sea mourns over a world lying cold and still beneath its shroud, and invisible birds cry, lamenting into the void. Suddenly a morning breeze awakes; the veil lifts and trails away into the azure of a summer sky, and nature, its bosom glittering with a myriad jewels, smiles in the sun-shine."

I think that the music clearly depicts the rising of the breeze and the lifting of the mist.   My thumbnail shows a detail of a 2019 photo of a sea mist on an early Spring day in the Florida Keys taken by 'GR' (source: https://tinyurl.com/y5bf3fkv ).
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