Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.

Saturday’s set of five suites from a remarkable and almost completely unknown manuscript containing chamber music renditions of Louis XIV’s favorite music from the previous five decades of his reign is to include excerpts from these seven ballets and operas, along with chamber music by Lully and the king’s music librarian Philidor.

Ballet de la Raillerie, 1659

Ballet des Saisons, 1661

George Dandin, 1668

Cadmus, 1673

Atys, 1676

Amadis, 1684

Idylle sur la Paix, 1685

Entitled “Symphonies and Trios,” the manuscript includes 67 suites of between two and 12 movements each, often with colorful titles representative of vocal texts. Selections from operas, ballets and other works originally intended for a larger ensemble are here reduced for performance by three or rarely four voices, alongside chamber music composed originally for three instruments, including several of the “trio de la chambre” by Jean-Baptiste Lully, the king’s indispensable court composer since 1653, who had been dead already for 26 years in 1713. Other composers, such as Michel-Richard de la Lande and the music librarian Philidor himself, are represented. Each of the part books consists of 145 manuscript pages, to which is affixed the same engraved nine pages of title page and table of contents. This exciting and extensive new source of chamber music at the court of Louis XIV is to be explored on the baroque instruments with which the king was familiar. The baroque bassoon was a favored bass instrument at the court of Louis XIV. Twenty-two of the suites have already been performed in the last few years by Jeffrey Cohan and colleagues for the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, DC.

Little Evening Concert for Louis XIV

Saturday, January 24, at 6 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church, 70 Sunset Lane (just north of Lopez Village), suggested donation of $20-$30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish). 18 and under are free. www.salishseafestival.org/lopez.

· Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon.

· Y Hsuan (Ethan) Lin, baroque violin.

· Vicki Gunn, baroque viola.

· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute.