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 > >> > >> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
