Each of these four short movements relates to a piece of wind music which I had been involved in playing. The character of these pieces was stuck in my head at the time I came to write the Quintet, and my response to the 'problem' of how to escape them was to work through each idea as a miniature. I would like to thank Dante Grela, Haladhara Dasa, James Macmillan, and William Boyce for the loan of their musical ideas.