{"id":3379,"date":"2012-03-30T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:20:42","slug":"honey-pie-for-saxophone-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"Honey Pie For Saxophone Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cranked out another arrangement for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenoirsax.org\/\">Lenoir Saxophone Ensemble<\/a>&nbsp;recently. &nbsp;This one was on the Beatles tune,&nbsp;<em>Honey Pie<\/em>. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s a MIDI realization. &nbsp;You&#8217;ll have to pretend you&#8217;re hearing real musicians, but you can get an idea what I did with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Honey-Pie1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With every arrangement I&#8217;ve written for them I&#8217;ve tried to give each one it&#8217;s own unique feel or hook to set it apart from the rest. &nbsp;This one was easy in that respect. &nbsp;I left the old-timey feel from the Beatles recording in there and pretty much stuck to the same form and harmonies, just scored out for the saxophones. &nbsp;The members of the Lenoir Saxophone Ensemble told me they usually perform one novelty-type piece on every performance and when they listed this tune as one of the possible charts to write I figured it would fit that bill pretty well. &nbsp;I think it should sound pretty good on real saxophones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the last chart of the series they asked me to write for their upcoming project. &nbsp;I&#8217;ll be sure to post when they are performing any of these pieces, in case anyone is in the area and cares to hear them. &nbsp;I think they&#8217;ll be doing some recording sessions this summer too. &nbsp;They are an excellent quartet and worth hearing if you get the chance. &nbsp;Go to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenoirsax.org\/\">web site<\/a> and you can listen to some samples in the audio player, including my arrangement of <em>Body and Soul<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cranked out another arrangement for the Lenoir Saxophone Ensemble&nbsp;recently. &nbsp;This one was on the Beatles tune,&nbsp;Honey Pie. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s a MIDI realization. &nbsp;You&#8217;ll have to pretend you&#8217;re hearing real musicians, but you can get an idea what I did with it. With every arrangement I&#8217;ve written for them I&#8217;ve tried to give each one it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honey Pie For Saxophone Quartet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-Sv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8164,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}