Midi Creations
of R. Malcolm Brown, Jr.


Music is the UNIVERSAL Language


How It Began For Me!



Music has been a part of my life from early childhood. My parents were both endowed with great musical talent. My father, a physician in Pampa, Texas, played the trumpet. In fact, he won a trip as a teenager to travel to Chicago and participate in John Phillip Sousa's band. My mother was an excellent pianist. She first taught me to play, but not the correct way! I never felt comfortable with reading music although I could barely manage. My first popular song Mom taught me was "The Tennessee Waltz". I enjoyed playing both popular and classical music. I had perfect pitch so it was much easier simply to hear my Mom play the measure on the piano, then I had it!

I started piano lessons at age 5. Elise Donaldson was my teacher. I continued until I was 18 just before I graduated from Pampa High School. I clearly remember wishing that I had some kind of automatic converter which would change what I played on the piano into music. I really enjoyed tinkering around with composition, but since I had difficulty reading music, less alone "writing" it, I never carried this composing and further until....... well, now you get it! I broke down on my last birthday and purchased a Yamaha PSR-620 keyboard. What a change from the early 1950's to the present. This one little keyboard had all the instruments and computer power one needs to do some really neat things with music. Combine this with Cakewalk, and presto, it is possible for an amateur to compose and play some neat music! These pieccs are not yet perfect, so please forgive me if you hear some errors or things you will not like. Nevertheless, I like to compose little TUNEs which keep ringing in the back of one's mind. I hope you will like my first Midi to be introduced on the Internet. I have appropriately named it Hi-Ho My U-Texas The title will be immediately apparent in the syllables of the theme beat! I am thinking about adding lyrics such as "Trailblazer of the Internet, Texas, Oh watch those dll's! ...and so on! More later on this as it evolves. In the meantime.........


Download the following Midi files:


The Tennessee Waltz 9K Midi1 format
Hi-Ho My Utexas! 46K Midi1 format
Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue 5K Midi1 format
Amazing Grace 7K Midi1 format

theme from MOON OVER CASTLE REMAINS 18K Midi1 format- an expose of the famous words by Japanese poet, Tsuchii Bansui.

Some Notes: Inspired by the beautiful Okajyo Castle, Rentaro Taki wrote the wonderful song entitled -Moon Over Okajyo Castle- . This 80 year old song has subsequently become a representative song of all Japan. Rentaro Taki was born in Minato-ku (formerly Shiba-ku),Tokyo. After moving to Toyama-prefecture and other places, he settled in Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-ku and graduated from Kojimachi Primary school. Then, he went to Oita-prefecture, and entered Tokyo Music School. Upon entering school, he frequently moved many times around Hirakawa-cho or Bancho. The very popular song "Kojo-no-tsuki" was composed at his home in Ichiban-cho.

While in Austin, Dr. Shigenori Kuga had an idea for my daughter who is an opera singer, to try this song, so he had his wife Fax the music. My daughter learned the song admirably, and only later, I painfully read through the music, finally producing the midi file you can download here. This is a very beautiful, sensitive, and haunting melody. I am sure you will keep repeating it to yourself once you hear it!

"Haru koro no hana no en
Meguru sakazuki kage sashite
Chiyo no matsugae wake ideshi
Mukashi no hikari ima izuko"

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