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Ballet dv roy, des festes de Bacchvs.

Title: Ballet dv roy, des festes de Bacchvs.
Publication: A Paris : Par Robert Ballard, seul imprimeur du roy pour la musique, 1651.

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Description

36 p.; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Alternative Title

Ballet du roy, des festes de Bacchus

Subjects

Note

Words only; composer and author unknown.
Librettist was Isaac de Benserade according to note concerning Dance Division purchase at auction.
"Dansé au Palais royal, le 2. et le 4. jour de may 1651" is handwritten on leaf before title page.
This is one of the three major ballets in which Louis XIV danced.
Participants included Louis XIV and a "Sr. Molier" (p. 9 & 15) or "Moliere" (p. 31), probably Louis de Molier, but a ms. attribution of some of the verses if not the idea of the ballet to J.B. Poquelin Molière has been recorded in P. Lacroix's Ballets et mascarades de cour ... 1581-1652, v. 6 (1870), p. [279].
Thirty entrées in verse.
"Entrée svpprimée. De deux coquettes, & d'vne matrône": p. 34-36.

Funding (note)

Binding (note)

Call Number

*MGTY-Res. 13-856

OCLC

54151648

Title

Ballet dv roy, des festes de Bacchvs.

Imprint

A Paris : Par Robert Ballard, seul imprimeur du roy pour la musique, 1651.

Funding

Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Binding

Bound. NN-PD

Added Author

Molière, 1622-1673.

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.

Benserade, Isaac de, 1613-1691.

Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Research Call Number

*MGTY-Res. 13-856