Interesting fusion, sort of like Scott Joplin's "Euphonic Sounds." I let my affinity forīaroque keyboard music filter through in the third strain. Probably the most untraditional of my compositions. Click here for live performanceīy Tom Brier (streaming MP3 sound file, 474K). This was my first completely cohesiveĬomposition. The lyrics were stupid so I erased them from my master copy, and have pretty The third strain in an attempt to find something to name this rag, but Upon hearing this piece, Tom Brier said, "This sounds like it'sįrom 1899!" I tried writing lyrics for the folksong style melody in That sounds like it could have been composed in 1899. I like early folk ragtime and cakewalks, so decided I'd try to write something (composed by Irene Cozad) published during the classic ragtimeīy Tom Brier (streaming MP3 sound file, 612K). That seemed to fit!) that there had been an "Affinity Rag" When I named this (by looking in the dictionary for a descriptive noun Gotten around to making a piano-roll arrangement. All the parts feel right with one another.įrank French said this was good piano roll material, though I've never So it was obvious what I should name the rag I ended up with. During my trip to Georgia, I had eatenĪt a rather expensive cafe which served the greasiest foods imaginable. I thought up the first strain of this while sitting on the runway in anĪirliner at the Atlanta airport. No guarantee I'll ever get around to finishing that.Ĭlick here for live performance by Tom Brier Of this, to make it sound hand-played, give it shading and pedal, but there's I've started to work on a better arrangement Said it was "exquisite" when I played it for him. Strain of this is the only piece of my music I can actually play. Writing out several measures at a time without playing them. The fact that they came straight from mind to simulated paper almost immediately, Strains ended up being the most complicated music I had written, despite Strain (oddly at only 15 measures) and thought it would be nice to makeįour simple strains and call them Conversation Pieces, but the next three My most ambitious and probably best work. The person whose birthday I used as an excuse to write this I fixed up this arrangement to make it sound more hand-played, and improved Of date I have since removed the first strain and written two newĪrrangement - Level 3 - UpdatedDecember 1996 Obviously, I was still in need of refinement. There are several odd things about this harmonically. Spontaneously coming up with, and this was the result of the firstĪttempt. I decided I should try to write down something that I'm The name is a reference to how I'm always coming up withįully orchestrated music in my head, and often whistling a spontaneouslyĬreated tune. The final two strains are improved over how they originally With the exception of the Happy Birthday arrangement and the Angelinaġ7 Rags by Ron O'Dell is available for $20.ģ340 Dog Leg Dr, Minden, NV 89423. Plus eight more (all the titles listed below down to Skunk in the Parlor Also, a ring-bound folio all the first nine of the above To the Nines (OUT OF PRINT individually),Īre available for $3 each. Keeper's long-lost MIDI files - my compositions only
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