Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
Pastorale sur la naissance de n[otre] S[eigneur] J[ésus] C[hrist] (Hitchcock 483 and 483a)
F-Pn Rés Vm1-259 vol. 21, fol. 57r-74v
Minkoff
The two high-pitched instrumental parts do not bear an explicit instrument designation at the beginning of the piece, but are referred to within the score as «violes» and «flutes». The two pairs of instruments play partly in unison, partly in alternation.
Shirley Thompson, The Autograph Manuscripts of Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Clues to Performance, Thesis, University of Hull, 1997, pp. 64ff.
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