One Day Wonder #50

For 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones and tuba.

This is the first in a series of three versions of the same tune. They all share the same main melody, basic form and 3/4 time signature, but this one’s secondary and tertiary themes are so different that it feels like they’ve been yanked from something else. Sure, it’s fun to mix things up, but I wanted to have some sense of unity in a piece that only lasts two and a half minutes. Instead, it keeps sounding like the tempo’s constantly changing, even though it remains the same, and that I'm just throwing in elements from different pieces. I would have scrapped the whole thing had it been utter crap, but it's not. My only other choice was to keep the main theme (with a few modifications) and gut the rest. I'm much more successful in #51.

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