"Ballet de la Jeunesse" Suite

Author: 
de Lalande, Michel-Richard (1657 - 1726)
Library: 
Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles
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 — 492x ⇩
Score: 
Score — 74x ⇩
Separate parts: 
Dessus I — 33x ⇩
Dessus II — 34x ⇩
Haute-contre — 37x ⇩
Taille — 35x ⇩
Quinte — 38x ⇩
Basse — 38x ⇩
Midi: 
Ouverture — 36x ⇩
Prelude de la Jeunesse - Pour Mercure — 33x ⇩
Passepied pour la Jeunesse — 34x ⇩
Gigue — 33x ⇩
Marche des candiots — 31x ⇩
Simphonie de fluste — 32x ⇩
Sarabande — 34x ⇩
Canaries I — 31x ⇩
Canaries II — 30x ⇩
Passepied II — 34x ⇩
Bourrée — 33x ⇩
Chaconne — 37x ⇩
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.
Tags: 
instrumental
french

News & Comments

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 10:20 — Mario Bolognani
<p>Publication of version 1.5, accepting an ancient correction of ms. (Gigue, Taille, bar 6).</p>