Discours au vray du ballet dansé par le roy
Subtitle: le dimanche XXIXe jour de janvier M. VIc. XVII : avec les desseins, tant des machines & apparences differentes, que de tous les habits des masques
Contributors: Bordier, René, active 1615-1640, librettist; Guédron, Pierre, approximately 1565-approximately 1621; Boesset, Anthoyne; Bataille, Gabriel, 1575-1630; Mauduit, Jacques, 1557-1627; Ballard, Pierre, approximately 1575-1639, printer
Publisher: Par Pierre Ballard, imprimeur de la musique du roy, demeurant ruë Sainct Iean de Beauvais, à l'enseigne du Mont Parnasse
Published: 1617
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: ger
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Ballets; Scenarios; Dramatic music; Librettos
Other titles: Ballet du roy
Notes: Scenario and libretto, with airs, of the Ballet du roy, ou, Ballet de la délivrance de Renaud, performed in Paris.

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).

Music described as having been performed by sixty-four voices, twenty-eight viols, and 14 lutes, conducted by "Le sieur Mauduit"--Leaf 3.

Leaves printed on both sides.

Signatures: A-H⁴ I².

Title vignette and head- and tail pieces.

Includes 13 numbered plates of scenes from the ballet.

Includes 12 pages of airs, for 1-5 voices, unaccompanied and with lute accompaniment (in tablature), set with movable type.

RISM B/I, p. 459

Brunet, G. Ouvrages anonymes, 10386