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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 — 515x
Score: 
Score — 99x
Separate parts: 
Dessus I — 52x
Dessus II — 54x
Haute-contre — 56x
Taille — 53x
Quinte — 55x
Basse — 56x
Midi: 
Ouverture — 60x
Gigue — 64x
Marche des candiots — 53x
Simphonie de fluste — 58x
Sarabande — 57x
Canaries I — 55x
Canaries II — 54x
Passepied II — 59x
Bourrée — 58x
Chaconne — 61x
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>