Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1198713 Composed by Marin Marais. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Baroque. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #797791. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1198713). Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances)I.L'Agréable (Rondeau)Arranged standard wind quintetThis dance features the oboe.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 - oboe La Provençale - flute  La Musette - bassoon La Matelotte - clarinet Le Basque - horn No 5 Le Basque is also arranged for horn quartet.You can find ALL of my Marais arrangements here.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1197335 Composed by Marin Marais. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Baroque. 11 pages. RayThompsonMusic #796499. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1197335). Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances) II.La ProvencaleArranged standard wind quintetThis dance features the flute.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 featurea a different member of the quintet. L'Agréable - oboe La Provençale - flute  La Musette - bassoon La Matelotte - clarinet Le Basque - horn No 5 Le Basque is also arranged for horn quartet.You can find ALL of my Marais arrangements here.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1197800 Composed by Marin Marais. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Baroque. 9 pages. RayThompsonMusic #796977. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1197800). Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances)III. La MusetteArranged standard wind quintetThis dance features the bassoon.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 - hornNo 5 Le Basque is also arranged for horn quartet.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1198268 Composed by Marin Marais. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Baroque. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #797460. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1198268). Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances)III. La MatelotteArranged standard wind quintetThis dance features the clarinet.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 - hornNo 5 Le Basque is also arranged for horn quartet.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1200738 Composed by Marin Marais. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Baroque. 9 pages. RayThompsonMusic #799431. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1200738). 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.�.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1201354 Composed by Marin Marais. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Baroque. 28 pages. RayThompsonMusic #800009. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1201354). Cinq Danses Français Anciennes (Five Old French Dances)Arranged standard wind quintet]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 aso available separately here on SheetMusicPlus.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1209582 Composed by Gustav Holst. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Christmas. 9 pages. RayThompsonMusic #807733. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1209582). This is my arrangement of Gustav Holst's arrangement.It is arranged for wind quintetThe French composer Marin Marais composed the tune as a dance for his opera Alcyone of 1706, with the title Marche pour les Matelots.The tune was subsequently included in Raoul Auger Feuillet's 1706 Recueil de contredansealong with a longways proper dance, La Matelotte, which Feuillet had himself written to go with the tune.In 1710 John Essex (d. 1744) published an English translation of Feuillet's work called, For the Further Improvement of Dancing, in which the dance is given as The Female Saylor.The words were written around 1860 while William Morris, then 26, was working as an apprentice in the office of the architect, Edmund Street, presumably under the persuasion of his fellow students who at that time had a taste for part-song. It became known as the Christmas Carol Masters in This Hall (alternative title: Nowell, Sing We Clear) Gustav Holst incorporated the carol into his work Three Carols H133 (1916–17) along with Christmas Song: On this Day and I Saw Three Ships. Holst wrote the Three Carols for amateurs singing in his Thaxted festivals.You can check out my arrangemet of this and other Marin Marais compositions here.