Henry Purcell - Chaconne in D minor for double bass quartet

Arranged by David Heyes

Purcell’s Chacony in G minor is originally for viols and could have been written as an independent piece or as incidental music to a play, although scholars are unsure of its date or why it was composed.

Chacony is the original spelling of the piece, changed to the French Chaconne over the years, and is a set of variations over a recurrent ground bass or repeated harmonic progression. It transcribes well...