Bass Quintets Book 1 for double bass quintet (arr. David Heyes)

About the Quintets Bass Quintets Book 1 is a collection of ten exciting and accessible transcriptions from the 16th-21st century that lend themselves beautifully to the bass quintet medium. There are a few musical and technical challenges, alongside opportunities to play wonderfully inspiring music in concert or at home with friends. Bowings and dynamics can easily be adapted or amended to add further variety and interest to each. The editions include a score and five solo parts. Orlando Gibbons - The Silver Swan The Silver Swan is the most famous madrigal by Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) and was first published in 1612 in his First Set of Madrigals and Motets of 5 Parts. There are five interweaving solo lines, with the melody in the top part, and the contrapuntal and harmonic work makes this a particularly effective transcription for double bass quintet. Although there are no dynamics, the musical phrasing and flow will help to create a strong narrative which emphasises the sonorous an