Description
Midsummer Miniatures is based on a score I wrote many years ago which started life as a musicalĀ for the school I was working in at that time.Ā It was performed for a week and was producedĀ again years later at another school. A couple of years ago I decided to completely rearrange the music for wind ensemble. Originally it had been written for a mixture of instruments includingĀ piano, violin, trumpet, clarinet, flute etc.Ā I had to use what was available to me. It’s presented hereĀ in a much more standard wind band arrangement. As youāve no doubt realised it was based onĀ āA Midsummer Nightās Dreamā but from Bottomās viewpoint. Of the four movements I created from theĀ original score, two of them were songs sung by the characters. The third movement was actually a danceĀ and the last movement was made up of a short song and a passage of incidental music.Ā The musical was entitled āBottomās DreamāĀ This Suite is grouped like a micro-symphony, with a quick first movement, a slow second movement,Ā a lively dance like third movement, and then a finale with aĀ slow introduction leading in to aĀ fast movement to finish. Internally though, the movements are simpler, with tunes shared betweenĀ all melodic parts. Not technically difficult, a chance for bands to try some original new music.