Yes Harmonic Series was very much a nod to Satie, and the "exotic" tonality could easily mesh with some of Debussy's sound. And definitely some Mussorgsky inspiration at the end of Weary Colossus. Great poem by the way!

All the best.

Harmonic Series

Magical! what you can come up with using a few chords. After the intro I was immediately thinking of Claude Debussy and Erik Satie - for example Gymnopedies - the change at 0,31, wonderful sound…

Birchbark Canoe

This piece of music evokes many different emotions and memories. As a child I was playing indian and had a bow and wanted my father to make a canoe at summer house. He made it of thin spruce boards but to me it looked like a boat
Was thinking of Mohicans, Native Americans, and all other native cultures around the world.
This piece is good training to use the piano's black keys.

Midwinters Night

Oh, the name and the music, you describe it so well. This piece of music could actually be one in a performance. I can find myself looking out through an icy window on a cold night in the north minus 27C ° and see the stars, feel the cold and suddenly the snow falls from the roof,  2,04 !  And the last heavy snowball 2,56 !

The Pensive Poet

Pensive - dreamily thoughtful - there are so many: Shakespear, Byron….
myself can be thoughtful too:
”Covid - one year, two years…time feels so long,
when will this be a memory we want to forget, not with a gong,
not with a song. - what a relief in the end”   

Dance of the Alps

Alps can mean many things but I’m thinking of the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe. You have a Happy music here, you get in a good mood. Thinking of folk music from the areas of Alps, where they use accordion.

Weary Colossus

Thinking of a person or thing, statue, of enormous size. I thought I heard Mussorgskij, Promenade from pictures 2,04  or Tchaikovskij ... something..
Anyway, this piece is my favorite this time

Thank you,

Stig

Information about the piano method: http://pianorevealed.com/

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxNzLiKyFAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOdS1UUjQZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEXyQ3PyInU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuqN56MQ5PY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXmnrE1--i0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD2MLaD02Hw