Quintets
Listen to York Guitar Quartet performing on their album Elegy
Composer
Title
Code
Anon.
Kipp, Wipp und Müntzerlied - an old German song
Grades: 5,5,4,3,3
Q0077
Carulli, F.
Concerto in A major
Grades: 8,7,5,1,1
Q0152
Dowland, J.
Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens
Grades: 5,5,4,4,3
Q0017
The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex His Galliard
Grades: 3,4,3,2,1
Q0018
Three Pieces: Lachrimae Antiquae, Captain Digorie Piper His Galliard, Mr George Whitehead His Almand
Grades: 8,4,3,3,3
Lachrimae Antiquae
Captain Digorie Piper His Galliard
Q0205
Franck, M.
Tanzlied (from Newes Teustches Musicalisches 1621)

Grades: 3,2,1,2,2
Q0217
Gastoldi, G.G.
Balletti a Cinque Voci - Con li suoi Versi per cantare, sonare & ballare. Introduttione a i Balletti; L'innamorato; Il bell'humore; Il contento; Speme Amorosa; Lo Schernito; Gloria d'Amore; Il Piacere; L'Ardito; Amor Vittorioso; Il Premiato; La Sirena; La Belleza; Caccia d'Amore; Il Martellato; L'Acceso
Grades: 4,4,3,3,3
Q0073
Il Piacere
Miracol'in Natura voglio dire -from Harmonia Celeste di diversi eccelentissimi a V voci.
Grades: 4-5
Q0076
Gluck C.W.
Che Farò Senza Euridice - from Orpheo ed Euridice Act II - also known in French as ‘J’ai Perdu Mon Eurydice’.
Grades: 4,2,2,5,1
Q0215
Handel, C.G.
Three pieces from Alceste - Ballo primo, L'ultimo Ballo, Gentle Morpheus Son of Night.
Parts: gtr solo, gtr1, gtr2, gtr3, gtr4 - Grades: 5,4,4,2,2
Q0163
Gentle Morpheus
Holborne, A.
Three Pieces by Anthony Holborne
Pavan The Funerals; Almain the Honeysuckle; Galliard the Faerie-Round
Grades: 5,4,3,3,3
Pavan The Funerals
Almain the Honeysuckle
Q0037
Six Pieces by Anthony Holborne
The Fruit of Love (Almain); Spero (Pavan); Galliard; Almayne; Noel's Galliard; Heigh Ho Holiday (Coranto)
Grades: 6,4,3,3,3
Q0038
Five Quintets (Specially produced for the Wheeler School Guitar Ensemble)
The Widowes' Myte, The Image of Melancolly, The Marie-golde, The Cradle and a Galliard
Grades: 5,4,4,4,3
Q0039
The Night Watch by Anthony Holborne
Parts: gtr1, gtr2, gtr3, gtr4, gtr5 - Grades: 2,1,1,1,1
Q0041
Wanton by Anthony Holborne
Parts: gtr1, gtr2, gtr3, gtr4, gtr5 - Grades: 3,2,1,1,1
Q0042
Iradier, S.
La Paloma - performed here by Toa Payoh Guitar Club Niibori Ensemble, Singapore and GEnRe, Singapore and by Dorset Guitar Society.
Por guitar quintet or quartet and bass guitar.
Parts: gtr1, gtr2, gtr3, gtr4, (gtr5/bass) - Grades: 4,3,3,3,3
Q0066
Q0066B
Simpson, Thomas
Galliarde (c.1617) Originally for consort of viols
Parts: gtr1, gtr2, gtr3, gtr4, gtr5 - Grades: 6,5,4,3,3
Q0142
Vivaldi, A.
Concerto for Two Mandolins (performed by the my ensemble at Selby Music Centre Guitar Ensemble, North Yorkshire from schools in the Selby area.)
It is possible to double the solo requinto parts where the rest of the ensemble is of sufficient size (e.g. ten or more tenor guitars) - this gives the advantage of 'back-up' for less experienced performers, and also imitates the 'double-string' effect of the mandolin.
Parts: gtr1, gtr2, gtr3, gtr4, gtr5 - Grades: 6,6,5,3,2,
Q0295