Winters Journey is a song cycle by Franz Schubert. The last song in the piece is called Der Leiermann which translates to The Hurdy-Gurdy Man. The song cycle is epic, and sad, and this piece wraps it up with an ambiguous ending to the cycle. The song is to be […]
Satie with Friends – The Ken version
Howard F. Arner, Jr. · Satie with Friends – Gymnopedies 1 – Lent Et Douloureux – Ken Soper Lent Et Douloureux, Slow and Painful. This is a collaboration we call Satie with Friends. In Jacksonville, Florida I recorded a backing piece by playing bass and impossible pianos. Impossible pianos are […]
Satie with Friends – Kyuppa
This is a collaboration we call Satie’ with Friends. This entry is based on Gymnope’dies number 1. Lent Et DouloureuxSlow and Painfulゆっくりと痛みを伴ってYukkuri to itami wo tomonatte French, to English, to Japanese In Jacksonville, Florida I recorded a backing piece by playing bass and impossible pianos. Impossible pianos are patches that […]
First Pass at Gymnopedies
So, I just put up my first attempt as mastering Gymnopedies, Erik Satie’s wonderful three pieces that really started a revolution in music. Each of the three pieces uses 6 track and three different piano patches, a 5 meter grand piano, a distant grand which is processed through various echo […]
The Nutcracker is Oh So Suite!
This is the preliminary release of the almost final mix of my interpretation of the Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The album contains the following tracks: This is the complete orchestral work with all instruments and all of their notes represented. I used the score from D. Rahter’s reprint […]
Howard Interprets Debussy
This album contains my interpretations of selected works of Claude Debussy that I adore. All are electronic creations and are taken from scores published on the IMSLP website. I meticulously input the notes into midi format and adjust tempo, velocity and other parameters to get the notes to an almost perfect […]
Debussy – Suite Bergamasque – Menuet
The second movement of Suite Bergamask is also inspired by Baroque dance and arabesque styles. The main theme is delicate and is ornamented by many embellishments, thus making it an arabesque. The piece is in the key of A minor and is in 3/4 time. A fun fact is that […]
Debussy – Suite Bergamasque – Prelude
A little Debussy always brightens my day. This is the first movement, Prelude, from Suite Bergamasque. I used 6 sampled piano patches like my 5 meter grand, distant grand, echo grand and Fender Rhodes with Pedal Board to get the spacious effect I desired. The prelude uses an improvisational style […]
Trio for Rhodes, DX 7, and Synthesizers
A little Schumann to brighten your day. This is the 3rd movement in the Piano Trio # 3 opus 80 written in 1847 by Robert Schumann. I upped the temp to around 90 beats per minute, the original piece is at 50 beats per minute. I think the faster tempo […]
Anitra’s Dance
Edvard Grieg’s Anitra’s Dance is an awesome tune from the Opus 46 Peer Gynt – Suite 1 and is the third composition in the suite. This rendition that I have created uses 14 tracks of synthesized instruments. I change the pizzicato parts of the score to be separate instruments instead […]