This was a thread a couple of months ago. I believe someone had a score
with 3 violin parts for a movement or so, and I suggested the
Shostakovitch Fifth as a precedent. I knew the score was three distinct
parts for only the third movement, but was not sure how the violin parts
were handled.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist
Louisville Orchestra
Owain Sutton wrote:
Apologies, but I seemed to have missed out on some emails - what was the
query re. Shostakovitch 5?
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Sent: 12 May 2006 17:27
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] 3 violin parts and rehearsal letters - numbers
Many Tchaikovsky works (I recall the 5th symphony particularly) are
notorious for having the rehearsal letters one bar before the phrase
beginings. I don't know if it is a composer preference or a
publisher-editor preference.
Also, thanks for following up on the Shostakovitch 5th 3rd
violin part.
I asked four different 1st violinists, and none had any recollection
(sigh). I would have asked our librarian, but she is in a tizzy now
since our summer season was cancelled as of a few weeks ago
and now is
back on.
Every time I have observed the three part violin section in that
symphony, both when we played and when I heard a local
community group
play it, it was just as you described - the back approx 1/3 of both
sections played the third part.
It would seem, if that was the case, that the easiest way to
print the
parts would be to put 1+3 in the first part, and 2+3 in the 2nd part,
and note that 3 is in both parts, and/or note the 2/3-1/3 divisi.
RBH
On 5/12/06 8:31 AM, "Christopher Smith"
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wrote:
In the Shostakovich 5 I mentioned in a previous message, I
noticed in
the score that the barlines at the rehearsal marks were quite thick,
about like Finale's thick barlines. It was remarkable because I had
never seen them before (except in incompetent Finale copying) and I
don't know what to make of them.
The rehearsal numbers (about every 4 bars or so) seem to
occur in the
bar BEFORE a phrase beginning, which is extremely off-putting. The
editor is also inconsistent on this, sometimes putting a rehearsal
marking ON a phrase start, just to mess with our heads.
Christopher
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