This is a piece I composed when I was 16, with an ancient software called [Adlib Visual Composer](https://archive.org/details/AdLibVisualComposerV1.51). On January 2021 I reviewed some of these old works. They were all pretty disposable, but I thought this one deserved to be resurrected, so I decided to arrange it for orchestra. For archaeological purposes, you can listen the original piece, which was recorded in a cassette and converted later to a digital format (so the quality is very low). I managed to preserve most of the structural, thematic and harmonic material of the original. There were, however, a number of problems that required solution: * **The original was way too fast.** I chose a slower tempo, a standard Tempo di Valse. * **The piece was pretty repetitive.** I alleviated that with orchestration, some slight reharmonization, and weaving a couple of secondary lines here and there. * **The bridge to the reexposition was very fast, and it didn't return to the initial key.** Here I wrote an entirely new, longer bridge, which smoothes the orchestration and modulates back to the initial key. I also avoided reexposing the introduction bars. * **The ending was also too sudden.** But I liked the final perfect cadence with just two big chords that mirrored the perfect cadences that mark the repetition of section A and the start of section B. So I rewrote it with by fading out everything so that the two final hits are more effective. These hits are also devoid of the bass figuration of the original, which, I believe, was a bit less effective. After writing all the ending I realized I was probably influenced a bit by the ending of Gustav Holst's [Second Suite in F for Military Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04U-PQuDq-s). * 2023-05-11: Some articulation adjustments and a bit more entertaining part for the pizzicato on the reexposition. * 2023-06-15: Lots of orchestration and melodic adjustments
