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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 — 472x
Score: 
Score — 55x
Separate parts: 
Dessus I — 18x
Dessus II — 19x
Haute-contre — 18x
Taille — 16x
Quinte — 20x
Basse — 21x
Midi: 
Ouverture — 8x
Gigue — 8x
Sarabande — 9x
Canaries I — 8x
Canaries II — 8x
Passepied II — 8x
Bourrée — 7x
Chaconne — 11x
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>