Discours au vray du ballet dansé par le roy :
le dimanche XXIXe jour de janvier M. VIc. XVII : avec les desseins, tant des machines & apparences differentes, que de tous les habits des masques.
Description
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Ballard, Pierre, approximately 1575-1639, printer.
Mauduit, Jacques, 1557-1627.
Bataille, Gabriel, 1575-1630.
Boesset, Anthoyne.
Guédron, Pierre, approximately 1565-approximately 1621.
Bordier, René, active 1615-1640, librettist.
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German
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A Paris : Par Pierre Ballard, imprimeur de la musique du roy, demeurant ruë Sainct Iean de Beauvais, à l'enseigne du Mont Parnasse, 1617.
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- Note
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Includes 12 pages of airs, for 1-5 voices, unaccompanied and with lute accompaniment (in tablature), set with movable type.
Includes 13 numbered plates of scenes from the ballet.
Title vignette and head- and tail pieces.
Signatures: A-H⁴ I².
Leaves printed on both sides.
Music described as having been performed by sixty-four voices, twenty-eight viols, and 14 lutes, conducted by "Le sieur Mauduit"--Leaf 3.
Scenario by E. Durand, who signed the dedicatory epistle on leaf 2r; words of the airs and the verses by Durand and R. Bordier (both names signed in the text); music composed by P. Guédron, R. Boesset (airs are attributed to both throughout), and by G. Bataille (see Grove music online, WWW site, 29 July 2009).
Scenario and libretto, with airs, of the Ballet du roy, ou, Ballet de la délivrance de Renaud, performed in Paris.
- Physical Description
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34 leaves :
ill. (engravings), music ;
22 cm. (4to)
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