Marais: Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances) V. Le Basque - wind quintet by Marin Marais Woodwind Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances)

Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances)V. Le BasqueArranged standard wind quintetThis dance features the horn.Marin Marais (1656 – 1728) was a French composer and viol player at the royal court of Versailles. His most famous works are his five books of Pièces de Viole, from which these pieces are taken.The Five Old French Dances were first presented as a single edition in the early twentieth century, arranged for viola and piano by Maud E Aldis and Louis T Rowe.The pieces in the set are as follows and my arrangement of each piece features a different member of the quintet:L'Agréable - oboeLa Provençale - flute La Musette - bassoonLa Matelotte - clarinetLe Basque - hornThey are all available on this site.I have also arranged this piece for horn quartet and for horn and piano..This is a shorter version of the original, and this vesrion was played many times as an encore piece by the late great hornist Dennis Brain who called it “a little French dance, which also happens to be the shortest piece I know.”