For your amusement, please have a look at this file, created entirely in the shape designer :-)

And we must not forget this little gem: :-) http://finaletips.nu/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&id=4:fun-stuff&Itemid=2

Sounds completely plausible!

Hm, I could not find the other occurrence (in G) of the music from the overture.... I don't know what he could mean with the remark about the extra filling parts. Maybe it's something regarding the...

Rameau sometimes used or re-used some of his music from time to time. I have a facsimile print of "Les Paladins" where this music is used, and in my score the music is in F major (and uses horns in...