Director of Music, St Peter's Petersfield. Recitalist & Teacher. YouTube: markdanceranacrusismusic
Waterlooville, Hants
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Mark Dancer retweeted
Hard to comprehend how much damage Labour has done to education in so short a time:
- Ending Latin Excellence Programme
- Ending Academy freedoms
- Ending the PE and Sport premium
- Taxing independent education
- Cutting HE teaching grants
- Fiddling with Ofsted ratings
Any more?
Samuel Sebastian #Wesley died otd 150 years ago in 1876. Here’s some organ music that isn’t the Choral Song & Fugue nor the Larghetto in F sharp minor!
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Mark Dancer retweeted
This is the BEST, most hilarious breakdown I have seen of the absurd rationales I have heard trying to justify trump's idiotic war.
BRILLIANT! 👏👏👏
Many congratulations to @PaulSpicer6 on being awarded the Medal of the Royal College of Organists “in recognition of distinguished achievement in choral conducting and pedagogy”. Very richly deserved! @RCO_Updates
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This is a remarkable (and extremely rare) instance of late medieval church art made for an English endowed religious institution surviving to the present day bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5q…
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Nominations are now open for the 2026 Honorary Awards
The RSCM annually confers diplomas & awards. Some are honorary; others are awarded as a result of academic study or other training.
Find out more here:
rscm.org.uk/world-of-the-rsc…
#Sundaymusic this week is part four of my #EightShort #PreludesandFugues series and it’s Number 4, the F major, which is possibly the most overtly cheerful of the set.
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Very pleased to have been able to attend @RSCMCentre Celebration Day at Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford and honoured to receive the award of Associateship of the Royal School of Church Music. A great service of affirmation of all church musicians’ work.
More from Gloucester for this week’s #Sundaymusic. Here is Herbert #Howells’ reflective #PsalmPrelude Set 2, No 2, based on Psalm 139, verse 11: very Howells but with a dash of #VaughanWilliams in the mix!
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Some gentle music from Gloucester for this week’s #Sundaymusic – Herbert #Sumsion’s #Saraband and #Interlude. This makes a beautiful introduction/prelude to a Sunday morning service or for the signing at a wedding. Sumsion does write a good melodic line!
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This week’s #Suundaymusic is the third in my three weekly series of the “Eight Short” Preludes & Fugues once attributed to #Bach. The seventh in A minor is really something of a Fantasia and Fugue, the former being somewhat fragmentary in style.
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Another gentle chorale prelude by Hubert #Parry for my voluntary at Choral Evensong at @stpetersfield is this week’s #Sundaymusic: ‘Eventide’, the tune for ‘Abide with me’, with a surprising syncopated little figure that runs throughout.
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François #Couperin was arguably the greatest #French #Baroque composer for the organ, yet left only two organ masses for the instrument. Here are the five movements of the #Kyrie from the one for the use of convents.
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To round off August’s #Sundaymusic here is another of #Bach’s(?) Eight Short Preludes & Fugues, the second one in D minor. Unpretentious, but ‘does what it says on the tin’, as the slogan goes.
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Mark Dancer retweeted
Celebration Day 2025
Christ Church Cathedral Oxford
Sat 4 Oct
Join us for our annual celebration to give thanks for the work of the RSCM & to present our Honorary Awards. Come & Sing Choral Evensong led by the Cathedral’s Director of Music Peter Holder ow.ly/AcIj50WNoIq
Today’s #Sundaymusic features one of the most beautiful melodies ever written: #Greensleeves. #VaughanWilliams memorably used it in his opera ‘Sir John in Love’, whence it was later arranged into the well-known #Fantasia of that name.
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We are delighted to announce our Honorary Awards for 2025
Each year the RSCM Council confers Honorary Awards on those who have made outstanding contributions to church music
Find the full list of 2025 honorands here rscm.org.uk/rscm-honorary-aw…
For those not enjoying the heat – and everyone else! – here is #Parry’s delightful #Chorale #Prelude on the tune #Martyrdom, “As pants the hart for cooling streams”, a beautifully placid piece of writing.
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Auctor Ignotus for this week’s #Sundaymusic, this, in G minor, is the sixth of the “Eight Short Preludes and Fugues” once attributed to #Bach. All sorts of names have been suggested without actual evidence, but it’s not worth worrying about really.
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#Sundaymusic today is another transcription: #Bach arranging one of his own cantata movements to make a chorale preludes. “Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten” is one of the six #Schübler chorales. Just three stops needed to play this lovely little piece.
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