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Rameau Sauvages 5

https://videos.grahampaasch.com/rameau-sauvages-5

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 5 (Graham's edits, round 17): the last note of the piece, in all four parts, now carries a marcato instead of a tenuto, the angry king stomping his foot, played on the accent samples with a firmer attack; the first half note of the last bar keeps its tenuto. Everything else is take 4: tenuto on every half and dotted half; cello bar 55 B half, B flat half; violin I bar 56 C sharp dotted quarter slurred to B, then A half; violin I bars 58 and 60 E quarter, B quarter.