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Carlyon de Lyle: Tintagel

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music

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#4 from 'Idylls of the King - Miniature Suite for Pianoforte" (pub. 1920)
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'Carlyon de Lyle' is a very evocative pseudonym used by the British composer Maud Wingate (1878-1958) for various songs and piano pieces published in the 1910s and 1920s. She was born in Scotland to a Scottish father and British mother, but moved to the Bristol area with her 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. This suite was published in the substantial Magnus series of albums (which contained works by York Bowen and Granville Bantock amongst many others). It draws its inspiration from Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King'.  Bizarrely, this piece is headed by the words "Lone Tintagel by the Cornish Sea", yet Tennyson always spells the ancient castle 'Tintagil', and the closest actual quote is "Dark Tintagil by the Cornish Sea" (drawn from the poem 'Pelleas and Ettare').  The quiet central section is headed (as shown on the video) "The Call of the Gulls" - yet the only gulls mentioned by Tennyson are drowned out by screaming fishermen's wives making nets!

My thumbnail shows part of a photo by Mike Erskine on Unsplash ( https://unsplash.com/photos/vaP6sZ3y6-0 ) of the spectacular footbridge at Tintagel, built by English Heritage, and opened in 2019.
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