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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 — 494x
Score: 
Score — 75x
Separate parts: 
Dessus I — 34x
Dessus II — 35x
Haute-contre — 38x
Taille — 36x
Quinte — 38x
Basse — 39x
Midi: 
Ouverture — 41x
Gigue — 38x
Marche des candiots — 35x
Simphonie de fluste — 36x
Sarabande — 38x
Canaries I — 35x
Canaries II — 34x
Passepied II — 39x
Bourrée — 38x
Chaconne — 41x
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>