On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 09:40 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
> At 7:31 PM -0400 10/01/02, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> >> Actually, this was one of the original solutions I was contemplating, >> and I somehow lost sight of it until others on the list reminded me >> that "Div in 3" within a section is much more common than "Div in 3" >> across both violin sections. In light of the discussion here, it >> seems obvious that it's the right way to go, since that's what >> players are used to seeing. However, I can't resist pointing out >> that this allegedly terrible problem about who is to play which part >> in a 2:1 divisi is *exactly* the same as the problem as to who is to >> play which part in a true 3-way divisi. It's just that in the former >> case the "first" part and the "second" part are the same. > > > I hope you won't make the "first" and "second" part the same, but > split both sections identically into 3, the top part played by 2nd and > 1sts, the middle played by both 2nds and 1sts, and the bottom part > too. Yes -- as I said above (perhaps I was unclear), that's exactly what I'm going to do. I was just pointing out the irony of everyone asking me "How in tarnation do you expect the players to figure out which part to play in a 2:1 split on the first reading?" when a 3-way split (which apparently everyone does know how to do without further discussion) is fundamentally the same problem. It shouldn't matter that you are splitting 2/3 + 1/3 in one case, and 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 in the other -- you are still splitting in *thirds*, which is what was alleged to be so difficult and confusing and all that. However, in the interest of keeping things within the bounds of familiarity for the strings, I will make the Violin I and II parts identical, both "Div in 3." Oh, and thanks everyone for the feedback -- I really had no idea that such a simple request would be so fraught with peril. - Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
