Keeping the customers satisfied: updating older music in Bourbon France.

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      The article offers information related to the updation of Musical comedies in House of Bourbon, royal House of France with Baroque and Classical works re-orchestrated for modern ensembles and instruments. Topics include features of form, harmony and technique that are characteristic of mid-18th-century French music; manuscripts dating from the first quarter of the 18th century; and works of French composer, Antoine Forqueray.