Dusty Miller March (flex ensemble)

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Dusty Miller March (flex ensemble)

CA$45.00

Version for Flex Ensemble (5 parts + optional percussion)

2:30

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Composed in 2012, arranged for Flex Ensemble in 2020.

Any wind or string instruments. 5 parts + optional percussion.

Also available for Brass Quintet.


Duration: 2:30


 

PROGRAM NOTES

The tune of Dusty Miller March is borrowed from a traditional Scottish tune - the same one Robert Burns used for his song "The Dusty Miller".

A recording of this song used to play in the hotel I once worked in on the Isle of Mull in Scotland's Hebridean islands, and the tune reminds me of that summer. With our wedding being held at one of Ontario's old mills, and our honeymoon planned for the Scottish isles, it was only natural that the "Dusty Miller" tune made its way into the wedding music I composed.

The original scoring was uncommon, based on the professional musicians who would be attending: clarinet, alto sax, bassoon, trumpet, tuba, and percussion.

This transcription for Flex Ensemble (5 parts with optional percussion) was arranged in 2020.