Dorset composer - Rick Birley
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      • Compositions [orchestral]
        • Bishops & Clerks
          • Latin Primer
            • Maverick
              • Variations on a Plainsong
                • Movement for String Orchestra "magnas inter opes inops"
                  • Little English Folksong Suite
                    • Chansons de France
                      • Marat/Sade Suite>
                        • Marat/Sade notes
                        • Hebrew Songs of Love, Faith & Survival
                          • Call to Remembrance
                            • Sar-planina
                              • Nursery Rhymes Kaleidoscope
                                • Spanish Folksongs
                                  • Olympian Glories
                                    • Piano Concerto
                                      • A Dorset Rhapsody
                                        • Romney Facets
                                          • Lord of the Dance
                                            • the Cuckoo - 'cello & chamber orchestra
                                              • Greensleeves
                                                • Blaydon Races
                                                  • Pastiche>
                                                    • La Ronde
                                                      • Zartom: Symphony
                                                        • Hornby: Exultate Jubilate
                                                      • Compositions [Choral]
                                                        • Compositions [choral/orch] - SACRED>
                                                          • Advent Carol Succession>
                                                            • Advent Carol Succession notes
                                                            • Songs of Time
                                                            • Compositions [Choral/Orch] - SECULAR>
                                                              • Fern Hill
                                                                • Universal Truth
                                                                  • The Jackdaw of Rheims
                                                                    • Nine Welsh Folksong Arrangements
                                                                    • Choral [a capella SACRED]>
                                                                      • Three Motets
                                                                      • Choral [a capella SECULAR]>
                                                                        • The Cuckoo
                                                                          • Dance to your Daddy
                                                                            • Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill
                                                                              • The Willow Song
                                                                                • In Vernali Tempore
                                                                                  • My Love in her Attire
                                                                                • Compositions [vocal]
                                                                                  • Edges
                                                                                    • Seven Folksong Ballads
                                                                                      • Three Hardy Songs
                                                                                      • Compositions [chamber/instrumental]
                                                                                        • Austerity
                                                                                          • Quintet "magnas inter opes inops"
                                                                                            • Five Folksong Arrangements (for the Crucible)
                                                                                              • Latin Primer [Septet]
                                                                                                • Latin Primer [violin/piano]
                                                                                                  • Past Tense
                                                                                                    • in memoriam G B
                                                                                                      • Variations on a Plainsong - piano transcription
                                                                                                        • Variations on a Plainsong - original version for solo clarinet
                                                                                                          • March Wind
                                                                                                            • Preludes [piano]
                                                                                                              • Carol Preludes [piano]
                                                                                                                • Marat/Sade Suite [2-piano transcription]
                                                                                                                  • Piano Sonata
                                                                                                                    • Folksong Dance Suite for Cello & Piano
                                                                                                                      • Dance to Your Daddy
                                                                                                                        • Salutation Carol Prelude [piano]
                                                                                                                          • Grazioso (guitar solo)
                                                                                                                            • Dorset Suite
                                                                                                                              • Drink Old England Dry: a Folksong Frolic for Busy Fingers
                                                                                                                                • Sonatina for Violin & Piano [1979]
                                                                                                                                  • The Phoenix
                                                                                                                                  • Compositions [jazz/light]
                                                                                                                                    • Funked-up Bach
                                                                                                                                      • Basement Jazz
                                                                                                                                        • Music Hall for Westfield
                                                                                                                                        • ARTWORK
                                                                                                                                          • Pembrokeshire scenes i
                                                                                                                                            • Pembrokeshire scenes ii
                                                                                                                                              • Rogues gallery....
                                                                                                                                                • Durham 'prints'
                                                                                                                                                  • Picture Dorchester....
                                                                                                                                                    • Italy October 2010
                                                                                                                                                      • Paris
                                                                                                                                                        • Prague
                                                                                                                                                          • Miscellaneous
                                                                                                                                                          • Poems
                                                                                                                                                          • Maverick
                                                                                                                                                          • Hobie Adventure Island
                                                                                                                                                            • Maiden Voyage 12.iii.11




                                                                                                                                                            Houses by Notre Dame, Paris [gouache on card]

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                                                                                                                                                            Notre Dame, Paris [oil pastel]






                                                                                                                                                            The same scene - Notre Dame - as a papercut [I cut through three or four pieces of different coloured paper so that I end up with three or four variants]

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                                                                                                                                                            two variants of the Notre Dame papercut:

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                                                                                                                                                            Chartres - I know it's not Paris, but it seems the best place to post this linocut [from 1970 or 71]:

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                                                                                                                                                            Chartres Cathedral [lino print]
                                                                                                                                                             




























                                                                                                                                                            I designed and printed this image of Chartres Cathedral when at school, and exhibited it in the Marlborough Artists' Exhibition. It received favourable public reviews, but I no longer have any copies of these.










                                                                                                                                                            Paris

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                                                                                                                                                            Notre Dame - ink & wash
                                                                                                                                                            This view is one of the best, and highlights the embedding of the cathedral in the Parisian way of life. I smell history in this place more than anywhere else, and the influence of this building and what it stands for has usually been close to the centre of French politics, for centuries. 











                                                                                                                                                            By the Seine [coloured drawing]

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                                                                                                                                                            Boats on the Seine











                                                                                                                                                            the Market in rue Mouffetard [oil pastels]

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                                                                                                                                                            the Market in rue Mouffetard [oil pastels]
                                                                                                                                                            (c) 2009 Rick Birley