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Rameau Sauvages 2

https://videos.grahampaasch.com/rameau-sauvages-2

Jean-Philippe Rameau, Les Indes galantes (1735), 4e entrée Les Sauvages: Danse du grand calumet de la Paix (the Rondeau des Sauvages), set for string quartet in G minor, Rameau's key, from his own four string parts (dessus, hautes-contre, tailles, basses; Nicolas Sceaux's edition, IMSLP). Rondeau, 1er couplet, Rondeau, 2e couplet, Rondeau; 80 bars, every bar numbered. Rendered with sfizz and Virtual Playing Orchestra solo strings. Take 2 (Graham's edits, round 1): violin I's dotted-eighth + two-32nd figures become two plain eighths (bars 7, 23, 39, 71); bar 8 (and 40, 72) ends on E4 with a half rest; rendered detached and light (staccato eighths, separated quarters, full long notes).