Marais: Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances) V. Le Basque - horn/piano (arr. Ray Thompson) by Marin Marais Sheet Music for French Horn and Piano at Sheet Music Direct
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Marais: Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances) V. Le Basque - horn/piano (arr. Ray Thompson)
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Arranged horn and piano.
Solo part with piano accompaniment. 

Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances)

V. Le Basque


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.

This is transcription of V. Le Basque.

This is a shorter version of the original, as 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.

The pieces in the set are as follows 

L'Agréable
La Provençale  
La Musette 
La Matelotte 
Le Basque 

I have arranged them for wind quintet.
My wind quintet arrangement of each piece features a different member of the quintet:

I have  also arranged it for horn quartet.

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