Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
La descente d’Orphée aux enfers (Hitchcock 488)
Items with viols:
Prelude Orphee and Cessez fameux coupables, for alto (Orphee), 2 viols and bc (harpsichord and third viol), act II Enfer, scene I-II
F-Pn Rés Vm1-259 (Mélanges autographes), vol. 13, f. [41]
Minkoff
The instrumental instructions are: p[remie]re viole, s[econd]e viole, t[roisie]me viole et clavecin. The parts are notated in alto, tenor and bass clef; their ranges fit with bass viols.
The catalogue F-Pn misread “core viole” for “ p.re viole”.
Shirley Thompson, The Autograph Manuscripts of Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Clues to Performance, thesis, University of Hull, 1997
Shirley Thompson, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the viol, «Early Music», 2004, pp. 497-510
Hugh Wiley Hitchcock, Les Œuvres de / The works of / Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Paris, Picard, 1982