Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
The development of his instrumental style can be discerned in his chaconnes. He experimented with all types of compositional devices and found new solutions that he later exploited to the full in his operas. For example, the chaconne that ends the "Ballet de la Raillerie" (1659) has 51 couplets plus an extra free part; in "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" (1670) he added a vocal line to the chaconne for the "Scaramouches".