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"Ballet de la Jeunesse" Suite

Source: 
Source of the Suite is a ms. Philidor from Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles, available through the digital library Gallica, BNF, Paris: “Ballet de le ieunesse / Represanté devant / Sa Maiesté a / Versailles sur Le petit / Theastre Le 28e Ianvier 1686 / L'an 1686 / Mis en Musique par Monsieur / de La Lande compositeur de la chambr[e] / et maistre de musique de la chapelle du roy...”. Score has the original clefs, while separate parts have been published with currently used clefs.
Sample: 
Sample — 482x
Score: 
Score — 69x
Separate parts: 
Dessus I — 29x
Dessus II — 29x
Haute-contre — 32x
Taille — 30x
Quinte — 33x
Basse — 32x
Midi: 
Ouverture — 27x
Gigue — 26x
Marche des candiots — 25x
Simphonie de fluste — 25x
Sarabande — 26x
Canaries I — 25x
Canaries II — 25x
Passepied II — 27x
Bourrée — 26x
Chaconne — 31x
Date: 
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Release notes: 
Versions 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.3 and 1.2 correct some errors in Ouverture (Dessus II, Taille and Quinte), Prelude (Basse) and Gigue (Taille, Quint) with repeats as in ms. Version 1.1 corrects some transcription errors. Chaconne was first published in 2006.

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<p>Publication of version 1.5, accepting an ancient correction of ms. (Gigue, Taille, bar 6).</p>