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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 — 526x
Score: 
Score — 105x
Separate parts: 
Dessus I — 56x
Dessus II — 60x
Haute-contre — 61x
Taille — 58x
Quinte — 62x
Basse — 66x
Midi: 
Ouverture — 65x
Gigue — 70x
Marche des candiots — 62x
Simphonie de fluste — 64x
Sarabande — 63x
Canaries I — 61x
Canaries II — 61x
Passepied II — 65x
Bourrée — 65x
Chaconne — 67x
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>