Editorial Remarks 1.0

Dieupart -- Charles or François -- very little is known about him. He spent the larger part of his live in England, where sources referred him as Charles Dieupart, but he himself signed F. Dieupart. There is some evidence that he was born about 1667 as the son of a Parisian candlemaker. In the years after 1700 he is mentioned in London as a violinist and a player of the harpsichord. He died in London about the year 1740.

About 1711 Six Suittes de Clavessin divisées en Ouvertures, Allemandes, Courantes, Sarabandes, Gavottes, Menuets, Rondeaux et Gigues were published with E. Roger in Amsterdam. They are composed for harpsichord solo and in a version for recorder or violin and b.c. (viola da gamba and lute). I use a facsimile (in the following called original) of the version for harpsichord (Mieroprint, EM 2025) and I will gradually typeset all suites.

I followed the original as close as possible with the exception that I practised modern convention for setting the accidentals and converting Dieupart's use of 4 different clefs (treble, soprano, alto, and bass on the middle line) to nowadays practice. In a few cases I changed the direction of stems. The title page preceding the first suite is the same as of the original. Inside the file Explication.pdf you will find Dieupart's rules for ornaments.

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