On Sep 7, 2004, at 11:41 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
To reopen an old can of worms, orchestral string sections divide nearly everything, even passages marked as double stops, to get maximum sound and best intonation. So, generally, don't sweat the notation to differentiate. The players don't.
And yet, the sound IS different. I have found that most string players WILL change double stops willy nilly, as you said, but not for maximum sound. All you have to do is ask two players to play a diad in double-stop, and then again in divisi. Which sounds louder?
They do it for easier intonation, which is usually for their own comfort and ease rather than for the music, as pros are perfectly capable of executing reasonable double-stops perfectly. This is the kind of thing that a strong conductor can wrestle with, but the poor composer probably has bigger issues to deal with, when they listen to him.
Christopher
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