#3 from 'Highways & Byways: 4 Sketches' (1919)
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Phillip Sear plays a most attractive evocation of sounds heard from an English church by the British composer (Alfred) Frederic Mullen (1868-1936).
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Much of Mullen's later music was written under pseudonyms: Jean Morel, Gustave Lind, Pierre Lescaut and several others, although this set was written under his own name. Suites of piano pieces by this 'group' of composers were very popular in the early years of the last century. Mullen liked to head his pieces with quotations-not always attributed. This one is headed by a quotation from Adelaide Proctor's poem 'The Lost Chord' (made famous in its vocal setting by Arthur Sullivan):
“I have sought but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,”.
"A lych-gate, also sometimes spelled lichgate or lych gate, is a roofed gateway you might find at the entrance to an English churchyard. The name itself comes from the Old English word "lic," meaning corpse. Historically, these structures served a practical purpose during funerals. The bearers would pause at the lych-gate with the coffin, allowing a part of the service to be read before proceeding to the gravesite.
Lych-gates symbolically separated the consecrated ground of the churchyard from the unconsecrated world outside. They also functioned as a kind of liminal space, a transitional area between life and death during funeral processions. Some even had benches, a cross, or a stone slab where the coffin could rest." (Gemini, 2/7/24).
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