> >From my own experience I know that for the string section of an orchestral
> score another practice is used. If e.g. the 2nd violins play two different
> voices then the notation in the score is as described above. In the parts
> the notation is very similar, sometimes as voices indicated by up stems
> and down stems or as chords with "div" or "divisi" annotation and no
> special indication for unisono phrases because such phrases are normally
> played by all instruments in that section. So it's only neccessary to
> indicate where only a few players or only one player should play the phrase.
Yes, that's the most common practice. However, sometimes when you
have more than two divisi or it would be unreadable to have two
divisi parts on the same staff, the part could be (temporarily)
split into two or more staff lines.
/Mats
