Marais: Five Old French Dances

Includes accompaniments for:

1. L'Agreable

2. La Provencale

3. La Musette

4. La Matelotte

4. La Matelotte (practice)

5. Le Basque

5. Le Basque (practice)

These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

This set of five dances for viola and piano by Marin Marais is a staple of the viola repertoire and illustrates many facets of the instrument.

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2 click-beats at beginning to set pulse

Repeat included

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2 click-beats at beginning indicate 2 bars before viola enters

All repeats included

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3 minim click-beats to set pulse before viola enters

All repeats included

Please click here to see if this track contains clicks/cuts/repeats

2 minim click-beats at beginning to set pulse before viola enters

All repeats included

This practice version slows down the quicker sections of the 'performance' track above, by around 15-20%. It is included for free with that version if selected.

Please click here to see if this track contains clicks/cuts/repeats

2 click-beats at beginning indicate 2 bars before viola enters

All repeats included

This practice version slows down the quicker sections of the 'performance' track above, by around 15-20%. It is included for free with that version if selected.