Menuet
From Suite Bergamasque for piano by Claude Debussy (1905)
Arranged for Wind Ensemble (2012)
Duration: c. 4 mins
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Menuet for Wind Ensemble was originally a piano piece by Claude Debussy, the second movement of the Suite Bergamasque (which also contains the famous Clair de lune) which was composed around 1890. I adored this entire set as a student and always could “hear” orchestral instruments in spots of the second movement as I would play it. So while I was taking an orchestration class as an undergraduate and was assigned to choose a piano piece to orchestrate (or, I suppose, band-strate,) I chose this piece. Several years later, I revisited my arrangement, revised and improved it into the present version.
Premiered November 19, 2015 by the Northeastern State University Wind Ensemble, Norman Wika-conductor, in Tahlequah, OK.
Recorded on Waltzing Dervish: The Wind Music of Keane Southard by the Northeastern State University Wind Ensemble, Norman Wika-conductor.