Saxophonic Organum

"The four Temperaments" are a way of classifying personality types.
The four types ( which go back to the Ancient Greeks) are 
(1)The Choleric (Active extroverted go-getter 'type  1a')
(2) Melancholic ( introverted sad pessimistic deep thinking)
(3) Phlegmatic (neither introverted nor extroverted but placid unruffled by life's ups and downs but capable of deep insights)
(4) Sanguine (Extroverted cheerful optimistic active)

The Four Temperaments

Synaesthesia. This refers to music that excites the Imaginination visually or in other sensory modes 
Whilst in music the primary response to the sound is aural, non-auditory sensations can occur owing to a sort of metaphorical excitement of sensations other than the purely aural, for example visual qualities or qualities associiated more with the sensation of touch (e.g soft, velvety, vibrant, harsh 'blending' of sound) so combining to give complex multi sensations ranging across all the senses. The music in this playlist excites such responses in the composers experience and so he hopes and believes it will do so in others'

Synaesthesia Suite for Virtual Orchestra

Orchestral Compositions from 2022 and 2023

Iyashi

Copy of (4)Water

The Shirelles released this tune in 1960. Can you "Name That Tune"? Performed on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at:

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Name That Tune #382

Four Sketches for Violin, Horn, Piano and Percussion
 'The Elements' (3) Fire

(3) Fire (from 'The Elements' Four sketches for small ensemble ) February 2022

Four Sketches for Small Ensemble 'The Elements" 

(2) Air

(2) Air (from 'The Elements' Four Sketches for Small Ensemble ) February 2022

(1) Earth (from Four Sketches for Small Ensemble 'The Elements'

(1) Earth (From 'The Elements' Four Sketches for small Ensemble ) February 2022

This Cha-Cha was first released by Tony Evans & His Orchestra in 2006. Performed on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: https://www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #433 by Tony Evans & His Orchestra

This tune was released by Anthony Newley in 1962. Performed on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: https://www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #438 by Anthony Newley

Introduction in English:

Germany in the 1960s was still very much influenced by the Nazi stink. Violence and black pedagogy still prevailed in families. Beatings and spankings were part of the natural educational repertoire of parents. 
Unfortunately, my father and mother also joined this then socially accepted community of thugs.   
In this often ominous and latently threatening time, Doris Day was for me the ideal projection screen for a world full of harmony, clarity and lightness. 
Since my parents basically loved me (they themselves had been traumatized by terrible experiences of violence in Nazi Germany and, due to a lack of suitable trauma therapies at the time, unconsciously went from being victims to perpetrators when beating us children), they took my childhood crushes on Doris Day seriously and at some point gave in to my urging to write her a (fictitious) letter from Germany.... 
As an adult, I distanced myself from my childhood crush on Doris Day for a long time, since critical film analyses tended to portray her as a representative of superficial, shallow and pseudo-harmonic acting and song art. 
Then I saw her again a good ten years ago at the „Berlinale“ in a documentary with Rock Hudson and his HIV infection at the beginning of 1985. Nobody wanted to get Hudson, whose HIV infection was diagnosed in Moscow, out of there and bring him back to the U.S. by plane. Most were afraid of becoming infected themselves. 
Not so Doris Day. She, along with several other actors, organized the flight back. And when Rock Hudson, who was already seriously ill with AIDS, stepped out of the plane after landing in the U.S., she demonstratively stood next to him and put her arm around him. Even today, tears come to my eyes when I think of this unique gesture of solidarity and loyalty. 
Since that magical moment in a Berlin movie theater, Doris Day has become immortal to me. 
And I can only say: I was not at all mistaken in my early love for her....

Lyrics in English

My Blond Angel

When I was a little boy 
Just a meter high 
I fell in love with your blond hair 
That always smelled like cinnamon stars to me

I'd watch TV in the afternoon and then I'd see you 
As you came on the screen
You were pure harmony, clinically pure, high polish
You exuded carefree elegance

No one believed I could fall in love like that
Little boys are supposedly not ready for that yet

But I suffered, I pined, I was sick with love
My blond angel from the faraway land

My parents told me she lives far away from here
In the great wide U.S.A.
Her name is Doris Day and she'd already have
A husband to take care of her

But I wouldn't give up
I cried and cried until my parents realized
They found out her residence and address
And after my continued insistence,

I dictated a love letter to them both
My father translated it for her

He threw it in for me, I was still too little for that
My blond angel from the faraway land

When I sat in front of the screen the following weeks
She looked at me differently
She looked quite in love, my letter seduced her
Since then I was her little husband

For a long time I was ashamed of this love
But recently I saw her
More magical than ever
For me she remains a shining light
I love her

Mein Blonder Engel (My Blond Angel)

This tune was made famous by Fats Domino in 1956. Performed on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard. 

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: https://www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #442 by Fats Domino

This piece moves through its various phases at a slow and deliberate pace overcoming difficulties encountered along the way and moving on to a relaxed ending. This remix contains edited segments improving the voice leading which in some places is unusual to say the least. The track has also been updated using the Soundcloud automatic mastering service.

Solemn Aria 19 April 2020 Remixed 4 July 2022 (Mastered)

A short bright and dynamic piece for Chamber Orchestra composed in 

june 2021 and revised in June 2023.

Symphonic Invention

Symphonic Invention Revised 1 June 2023

Above Dreams

Above Dreams (DEMO)

Adagio responding to international events suggests to me the question; 'Is catharsis a valid aim in music today'
This piece was mastered by John Cafarella

Adagio for Our Times (Remix VIII 3 December 2023)

This is a variation of a sort on a musical fragment which appears in the theme music for the TV series 'All Creatures great and Small' and also in the first movement of my Tripartite Fantasy and is constructed as a free flowing set of improvisations on a simple basic idea This simple idea is treated in a linear polyphonic way resulting in a texture which moves between consonant and dissonant harmony ending on a C major chord.
This is an updated revision of the original track using different samples.
This version was mastered by John Cafarella

Dr M Sort Of A TV Theme (Revised 5 December 2023)

Modelled on a movement of the Danish composer Carl Neilsen's  4th Symphony this short piece unfolds in a series of terse dramatic interludes.
My heartfelt thanks go out to John Cafarella for his sensitive mastering of this piece
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Allegro Moderato (After Carl Nielsen) Remixed 15  December 2023

An extended and modified version of 'Allegro Presto Assai' now For Brass Choir and Orchestra originally uploaded to Soundcloud on December 6 2023 as a for Orchestra alone piece. 
Parts of this piece have been rewritten and I provide a new ending.
This upload has been mastered by John Cafarella.

Allgro Presto Assai

Allegro Presto Assai (Extended Version) 11 January 2024

Call Me Up

A short prelude on the opening theme of the Prelude in D sharp Minor from book II of the well Tempered clavier by Bach (JS)

19 April 2020 Variations on a theme of J S Bach Remix

19 April 2020 Solemn Aria (Mastered)

A rondo-like piece for virtual orchestra with saxophone quartet. Tempo moderate to fast. Extensivley revised May 6.

29 April 2020 Saxophonic Remix XXV for Virtual Orchestra and Saxophones

A short prelude for small orchestra modeled on the sound of a pealing bell

The Phlegmatic: (A Pealing Bell)

Edge Ostinato is a short but intense piece for strings at a moderate to fast tempo

Edge Ostinato Remix XXII

Andante Tremolando et Cantabile is a song like prelude featuring tremolo effects in the string section.
This piece uses the Native Instruments sampler Kontact with the notation softare Sibelius.
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Andante Cantabile et Tremolando_VI

The first in a quartet of pieces reflecting the four temperaments. 'Carillion for the Optimist'. A brief and intense incantation to and celebration of  the humanl 
spirit.

The Sanguine: (The Optimist, a Carillon)

Melancholic of temperament he is endowed with light.

The Melancholic Remix IV

The Four Tempaeraments: Choleric

The third in a projected set of four pieces for virtual orchestra reflecting on the emotional makeup of human being as found in the classification of the four temperaments which originated in the ancient world.

The Choleric REMIX

This piece was conceived while listening to a broadcast of contemporary classical music. It evolves from some simple material by developing themes and motifs (with repetition)and moves from a sombre opening through various darker and lighter moods towards an ending which indulges in a light banter between the orchesrtra and the listener.

The Moon at Noon. (Edited)

'Bittersweet' is so called because it explores traditional harmonic structures together with more piquant harmonies combining the former with the latter to form a complex but incisive framework for the essential 'bitter-sweetness' of  and ambiguity of human existence as many experience it living in modern times.

Dr M Sort Of A TV Theme (Revised 5 December 2023)

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