Guy Hayden wrote:
This is generally true. However, sometimes the outside player must turn. I recently completed engraving a work with divisi throughout. At one point the outside players had a rest while the inside were playing. At that point it is necessary for outside to turn.
I think the same thing happens in Holst's "St. Paul Suite", although in that place it may have been a peculiar situation where inside/outside were exchanged for rhythmic security.
Yes, fair enough, there's exceptions.
One piece which takes this to an extreme is Roy Harris's third symphony, which has a long arpeggio-based passage with both violin sections divided into fours. The music's very cleverly composed & laid out to ensure that the page turns across the eight individual lines are evenly staggered, with the parts that need to drop out being covered elsewhere.
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