This is my string quartet arrangement (with synth vocals) of the Song "Easy for You to Say" by keyboardist, vocalist, and violinist Eddie Jobson, from his 1983 album Zinc / The Green Album. I wrote my arrangement on Sibelius software and exported it to audio, and this is the result. I will use this arrangement live with a string quartet to accompany me singing the song on occasion.

Easy For You To Say (Eddie Jobson / String Quartet Arr.)

This is Track #6 from the album Theme of Appreciation 4 - a fan tribute to the genius progressive rock keyboardist and violinist Eddie Jobson. This is my string quartet arrangement of Eddie's song "Easy For You To Say" to accompany my singing. Visit http://www.toarecords.org for the story behind this Theme of Appreciation album series.

Easy For You To Say (Eddie Jobson-Chris Nelson arr/String 4tet)

"Sing a Tapestry" is a 4-part choral piece written by Audrey Snyder.  This was part of a CD to benefit the "Interfaith Hospitality Network", a non-profit organization that coordinates with churches and faith communities to help homeless families get back on their feet.  A number of local church choirs contributed recordings of their selected choral anthems, and "Sing a Tapestry" was recorded by the choir of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada, which I lead.

Sing a Tapestry

Result of more "tropical" jams on that wooden sound on the keyboard.  Playing with odd rhythms here.

Onward to the Bamboo Hideout

A friend of mine Natalie shared the melody of this song by "filk" singer Leslie Fish. It had not chords written for it, but based on the rhythm and the direction of the melody, I was inspired to create a "Bossa Nova" version of it.  The words of the song are based on Lord of the Rings, now made famous by the movie trilogy.  This arrangement was done in the 90s.

Fellowship Going South (of the Border) - Leslie Fish (arranged by CN)

This is my instrumental version of a song that a friend of mine Mike Haber wrote with my keyboard arrangement for a group project called "Sing Sing".

I Have Come for You - SingSing

Here's a shortened version of a song that I did with a friend of mine Mike Haber in the late 80s - has ecological underpinnings

Mother, Father - SingSing

This emerged from an open piano improvisation on top of a crackly cricket sound on my Korg PolySix Keyboard.

Piano Lullabies for Restless Crickets

This madrigal, "Construe My Meaning" by Giles Farnaby (1598), I recorded with my voice on 4 vocal tracks on GarageBand software. The soprano and alto tracks I sang an octave below the original score to fit within my range. 

Giles' harmonies are unusual for his time in this song and goes along with the words:

"Construe my meaning, wrest not my method;
Good will craves favour, witness the high God.
If I have meant well, good will reward me;
When I deserve ill, no man regard me.
What shall I say more? speech is but blasting.
Still will I hove for life everlasting."

Construe My Meaning - TTBB

This madrigal, "Construe My Meaning" by Giles Farnaby (1598), I recorded with my voice on 4 vocal tracks on GarageBand software. The soprano and alto tracks I sang an octave below the original score to fit within my range. Then I filtered those two tracks through a "Helium Breath" effect which brought the notes back up one octave to the original range.

Giles' harmonies are unusual for his time in this song and goes along with the words:

"Construe my meaning, wrest not my method;
Good will craves favour, witness the high God.
If I have meant well, good will reward me;
When I deserve ill, no man regard me.
What shall I say more? speech is but blasting.
Still will I hove for life everlasting."

Construe My Meaning - SATB (Helium)

This madrigal by John Wilbye (dated 1598) is one of many settings of one of a number of translations of an original Italian poem by Angelo Grillo - "Quand'io moro le rose". 

This was recorded with the Soprano and Alto parts down an octave to fit my vocal range. The result makes for a good "Barbershop Quartet" arrangement.

Here are the words:

"Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting,
Which clad in damask mantles deck the arbors,
And then behold your lips where sweet love harbors,
My eyes presents me with a double doubting.
For viewing both alike, hardly my mind supposes
Whether the roses be your lips, or your lips the roses."

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