Dessus. Le printemps de Claud. Le Jeune, natif de Valentienne, compositeur de la musique de la chambre du Roy. A deux. 3. 4. 5. 6 et 8 parties.
This is a 1603 Paris printed collection of French chansons by Claude Le Jeune, a Valenciennes-born composer of the royal chamber music, issued by Pierre Ballard for singers in two to eight parts. Its pages show polyphonic music in engraved or movable-type staff notation, with black diamond-shaped notes, lyrics set beneath the notes, and a decorated historiated initial letter with foliate scrollwork at the start of each piece, a clear template for classical typographic music layout.
