Howdy Djim,

This is indeed a beautiful piece (listening to the mp3)! While I'm not sure where the lyrics are derived from, they do run a good parallel with the Song of Solomon, which is a beautiful love poem, well worth singing about It could also be lovely voiced with instruments rather than singers, which sounds like what you're planning to do?

Fretless bass will go up to as high as the player can coax harmonics out of it ;) I think I recall Djim saying that he tunes his basses BEAD, rather than EADG, but I could be wrong. If so, then he'd be good for D5 (and then some), with C5 as "middle C".

I think a fretless with a bit of chorus could be a very lovely thing with this piece. I'm much inclined to let MG massage the notation - he's light years ahead of me in that realm

I'd love to hear what you come up with!

ttfn,
Sherry