Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair for Wind Quintet waltz Aitken is one of Canada’s

Aitken is one of Canada’s outstanding composers

was deliberately given to the Oboe and not the flute (not every high register melodies needs to be assigned to the flute)

The woodwinds can do well by adopting a brilliante style of playing to mimic the trumpets

Bb clarinet

even singing along if they know Japanese

Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair for Wind Quintet waltz Aitken is one of Canada’sDESCRIPTION Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair is an endearing piece and a great introduction to the musical world of Debussy. Every piano player would most probably be familiar with this piece, but not necessarily wind players. However, with this arrangement for Wind Quintet, the expressive voices of this piano piece are further explored by the colours of the Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon. The opening solo is deliberately given to the