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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 — 506x
Score: 
Score — 88x
Separate parts: 
Dessus I — 43x
Dessus II — 46x
Haute-contre — 47x
Taille — 45x
Quinte — 47x
Basse — 48x
Midi: 
Ouverture — 52x
Gigue — 56x
Marche des candiots — 47x
Simphonie de fluste — 50x
Sarabande — 48x
Canaries I — 46x
Canaries II — 46x
Passepied II — 50x
Bourrée — 51x
Chaconne — 54x
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>