Birthday Music

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Duration

24 minutes

Note well:

Happy Birthday To You, by Mildred and Patricia Hill, Copyright 1935 renewed 1962 Summy Birchard Music, a division of Summy Birchard Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Used with Permission.

Program Note

"This set of birthday variations started out as a small gift for a friend and gradually grew into the finished work. The five movements are titled Prelude, Cavaliers, Leprechaun, Love Song, and Party Time."

--Matthew H. Fields

Instrumentation

• flute, alternating piccolo
• oboe
• clarinet
• bassoon
• horn
• pianoforte

Year of Composition

1995.

Score

Scores and parts are available from Fields directly. A project to reconstruct the score and parts in modern electronic formats is somewhere deep on Fields's list of priorities.