Concerning thrid violin part in Shostakovitch Fifth third movement:
Christopher Smith wrote:
I got a look at the other edition's violin parts, finally.
First and second violins are written normally for the entire symphony,
but there is a part for Violin 3 that has mvt. 1,2 and 4 marked Tacet!
I imagine the idea was to distribute this third violin part to
selected members of the firsts and/or seconds to substitute for the
mvt. 3 they had in their parts.
I suspected that this was the way it was in the old Kalmus set. That
set also has seperate piano and celeste parts, even though they can
easily be covered by one player. This caused the hiring of two players
at least once, probably many more times than once.
Raymond Horton
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