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Album: From Within
Ensemble: Ricks Band
Composer: Richard Byron Strunk
New Age; Easy Listening; Minimalism; Trance; Ambient Neo-baroque Neo-romantic Neo-classical Neo-medieval Beautiful Relaxing Comforting & Soothing!
 

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This CD 'From Within' is Music designed specificly for Relaxation.

This CD is 1 of 6 CDs that together total over 60 musical compositions and are a representative sampling of over 800 musical compositions composed by Richard Strunk over the course of the past 3 decades (1974 - 2007). A substantial number of Rick's 800+ musical compositions are Classical pieces for solo instrumental players and include works for almost all the instruments existing within the modern symphony orchestra. There is also a large body of chamber music by Rick composed for both Classical ensembles such as String Quartets; Piano Trios etc, plus much that is written for Jazz quartets and quintets that utilize the fusing of either Pop song and/or Classical work with Jazz, as well as electronic music and some larger orchestra works too. Occasionally Rick has also written some Pop/Rock tunes through the years too. More CDs are coming soon. Enjoy!

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1
Misty Dawn from 12 Fragments Solo Piano Ambient 1:39 2 MB 1974 Listen
 

Description:
This miniature work invokes a pre-dawn ambivalent mood through the use of a series of secondary-dominates without sevenths, but merely open 5ths with 2nds rather than 3rds. It is in essence pan-tonal since it can equally satisfyingly cadence on any of the ‘chords’ within the harmonic progression pattern of the piece. Since it begins in ‘a’ it also ends in ‘a’, but do to the ambivalent harmonic nature of the work (cycling around the circle of P5ths) it could have ended in any key. The ending is made definite by at last adding a third (minor in this case) in the final chord. Because of this harmonic ambivalence coupled with the simple rhythmic and melodic motives this work evokes that almost undefinable moment preceding dawns lighting upon the horizon and the timbre quality chosen also helps to instill a sense of anticipation never quite fulfilled and a floating feeling never quite grounded.

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2 The Early Hours
(After JS Bach)
Minimalist Ambient
NeoBaroque
2:22 2.8 MB 1996 Listen
  Description:
This work is another kaleidoscope variation on the 2-part Invention no. 1 after J.S. Bach. It is written in a Neo-baroque style and performed with digital piano and tubular bells. The dark mysterious timbre selected and the breath in emptiness of the middle register with only low and high pitched melodic lines sounding in a slow somber tempo plus the sparseness of near to distant tolling bells all combine to give an impression of the quiet and still empty early hours of the morning. The intervalic mutation selected for this variation by emphasizing minor intervals also suggests a dark late night or very early predawn feeling.
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3 Meditation No. 4
(Tenor Recorder)
NeoMedieval Minimalist 3:01 3.5 MB 2001 Listen
  Description:
This work is an intervallic Kaleidoscopic composition belonging to a set of seven Meditations for Tenor Recorder. Each of the seven meditations have a diffeerent interval emphasis making a different mood for each. There are currently a total of over 500 meditations for 20 different solo instruments. These 'Meditations' may be considered as 'Minimalist' compositions that combine the middle age technique of Iso-rhythm with 7 different interval environments derived from 12-tone linguistics. Thus this meditative work is both Kaleidoscopic and Neo-Medieval.
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4 Gentle Surf Melodic Quartet 10:01 11.5 MB 1997 Listen
  Description:
This works style is both homophonic and meditative and scored for flute, digital piano, strings, bass and drum set. This work is unabashedly tonal yet hopefully with no pretension or any stale uncreative use of tonal cliché. It is actually a ‘detail’ taken from a poly-tonal composition and expanded into a new piece in its’ own right. The harmonic progressions and melodic patterns hint subtlety at times even in its’ most obvious traditional tonal-states towards possible harmonies and melodic ideas outside of its current tonal center. The basic harmonic plan of the work is derived from a simple harmonic progression that is modulated by this pattern derived from itself producing by this pattern no specific background tonic emphasis (sense of a primary key) in the pieces overall structure, but rather gives a sense of ambivalence in the background structure (although patterned). Within the motivicly patterned yet ambivalently structured general form there are heard in the foreground cycling temporary islands of momentarily felt tonalities with no one of them predominating. The primary focus of this work was for a free-form (fantasy-like) melody flowing within and through various tonal centers motivicly patterned in relation to eachother yet ambivalent in emphasizing a predominating tonality. This piece was composed for the purpose of meditation, relaxation, and simple enjoyment of listening to accompanied melody.
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5 Trance Music 1 Minimalist 6:53 8 MB 1996 Listen
  Description:
This work is both minimalist and meditative and is scored for 2 digital pianos. This music was inspired by some of the early solo keyboard work of the composer Terry Riley such as a Rainbow In Curved Air and Persion Surgery Dervishes. Simply put, this is a duo for 2 pianos. There are definite motives and some development episodes underpinned by fairly constant pulsing all adding up to make an adventure of listening within this meditative work. Harmonically it is primarily composed of various kinds of chords built on M2nds and P4ths.
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6 Waves On A Quiet Beach Melodic Quartet 6:38 7.7 MB 1997 Listen
 

Description:
This works style is both homophonic and meditative and scored for flute, digital piano, strings, bass and drum set. This work is unabashedly tonal yet hopefully with no pretension or any stale uncreative use of tonal cliché. In Essence the same formal techniques were utilized for ‘Waves’ as were employed in ‘Gentle Surf’ and once again is but a detail taken and expanded from a more involved poly-tonal work. Again the purpose of this work is also for meditation, relaxation, and simple enjoyment of accompanied melody.

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7 Sunlight Dancing On Water Minimalist 4:33 5.3 MB 1997 Listen
  This work is both minimalist and meditative and is scored for 2 digital pianos. Again using the underlying pulsation of simple tone motives with various episodes of development although with less cascading and a more stepping out from the influence of Terry Riley’s early style with passages suggesting the use of definite harmonic aggregates and progressions. Still the chords are mainly built on M2nds and P4ths. This is one of a series of keyboard works composed over a period of 20 years that emphasize sunlight in various forms of reflecting motions or of like metaphor if the listener prefers another analogue to these patterns that fits these tonal patterns. In this work is a use of a multi-toned randomized tremolo that helps give the feeling metaphorically of shimmering sunlight.
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8 Meditation No. 5
(Tenor Sax)
NeoMedieval Minimalist 3:02 3.6 MB 2001 Listen
  Description:
This work is an intervallic Kaleidoscopic composition belonging to a set of seven Meditations for Tenor Sax. Each of the seven meditations have a diffeerent interval emphasis making a different mood for each. There are currently a total of over 500 meditations for 20 different solo instruments. These 'Meditations' may be considered as 'Minimalist' compositions that combine the middle age technique of Iso-rhythm with 7 different interval environments derived from 12-tone linguistics. Thus this meditative work is both Kaleidoscopic and Neo-Medieval.
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9 Trance Music 2
Wedding Music
Minimalist 9:21 10.8 MB 1997 Listen
 

Description:
(?c. Spring / ‘98)
Trance Music No 2 or "Wedding Music" was Commissioned by Mr. Nathaniel Borenstein as a gift for his wife Trina on their 20th wedding anniversary.This work is both minimalist and meditative and is scored for 2 digital pianos. This work is essentially very much alike to ‘Trance music no. 1’ although with brighter timbre and registrar use of the instruments. This work is stylistically a minimal work and Arranged for 2 keyboards (A piano Duo). I was drawing on influences from Terry Riley’s early keyboard works, as well as, my own experiences of playing in an Indonesia Gamelan back in my College years. It was commissioned by Nathaniel Borenstein as a gift to his wife Trina Borenstein and is dedicated to her for their 20th wedding anniversary. The tolling Bells count out the 20 years with a few extra to grow on.
It is also a part of my Kalediscopic variations using the linguistic nterval pulled from piece.

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10 Evening Star Melodic Quartet 7:50 9.1 MB 1997 Listen
 

Description:
This works style is both homophonic and meditative and includes saxopone, digital piano, strings, bass and drum set. This work is unabashedly tonal yet hopefully with no pretension or any stale uncreative use of tonal cliché. In Essence the same formal techniques were utilized for ‘Evening Star ’ as were employed in ‘Gentle Surf’ and 'Waves'. Again the purpose of this work is also for meditation, relaxation, and simple enjoyment of accompanied melody.

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11 Vespers Minimalist Ambient
NeoBaroque
3:37 4.2 MB 1996 Listen
  Description:
This work is a kaleidoscopic Variation after Prelude 1 WTC by J.S. Bach. Its style is both Neo-baroque and Minimalist with the instrumentation of digital piano, guitar, tubular bells and drums. This piece invites recall of ‘The early hours’ as evening settles down with these selected timbres although with the guitars’ condensed harmony-melody in the middle register one gets more a feeling and sense of a quiet fullness after a days’ work rather than that of quiet emptiness. The same intervalic mutation was used in this work as was used in ‘The early hours’.
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12 The River Minimalist 4:28 5.2 MB 1991 Listen
 

Description:

(c. 11 / 16 / ‘91 (Revised 2 / 28 / ‘95)) This arangement of The River is scored for Violin, Vibes, ‘Cello and Synth or Tape. This was originally a vocal work. The words that go with the original song version are from Scripture. “Guard your heart, for from there flow the springs of life.”

This is a simple straight forward minimalist work for an ensemble. The form is varied with each performance since although completely composed it is written in a multitude of sections that can be played in any order with any combination of parts and repeated at will by the performers choice either preplanned before the performance or spontaneously during the performance; the piece still comes out overall sounding similar to what you will hear in this rendition. A slight combining of aleatoric (John Cage) formal means with preconceived composed integrated structures is the basic formal idea. The primary intervals employed are repetitive and drone like use of M2nds.

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13 The Night's Stars Minimalist Ambient
NeoBaroque
2:22 2.8 MB 1996 Listen
  Description:
This work is a kaleidoscopic variation after JS Bach's Fugue 1 WTC and is scored for 2 digital pianos. This piece is a five voice fugue with a low drone that by the very structure of a fugue invokes metaphorically a feeling and sense of the beauty and precise mathematical motions of the stars as observed on a clear night. The same intervalic mutation was used in the reconstruction of this variation (now with updated harmonic and melodic intervals) as was used in the afore mentioned variations.
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14 Lullaby No. 8 Music Box 1:20 1.7 MB 1984 Listen
  The original insturmentation is solo piano, however this recording of the work is an arrangement for music box and drums. This work is one within a set of 12 lullaby’s for Jessica composed in the early ‘80s in memory for a baby and her parents who were murdered. The criminals were caught and later convicted. A 6 month old baby and 2 wonderful people lost their lives and these lullaby’s were written in memorial to them. These simple pieces denote beauty and peace tinged with sadness for their sake. Although the harmonies are coincidently of the traditional 19th century Romantic tonal-modal system all progressions are actually derived using 12-tone kaleidoscopic methods. They may be the most accessible 12-tone derivative music yet written.
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