Apologies, but I seemed to have missed out on some emails - what was the
query re. Shostakovitch 5?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond Horton
> Sent: 12 May 2006 17:27
> To: [email protected]
> 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" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >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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