I'm wondering if anyone can help me with this. This is a sketch from one of the EMPIRE cues by John Williams. (It’s the Mynock scene when the bat creatures are attacking and flying all around the Falcon, if anyone’s curious.) What exactly does the highlighted notation mean? I'm not sure what each instrument is supposed to be doing exactly. The first line are piccolos, the second trumpets, the third woodwinds. Is it just shorthand for sextuplets, with the first picc/trumpet playing the top notes, like a tremolo, and the second picc/trumpet playing the bottom notes? If so, it's strange that Williams would notate it so unusually here when he doesn't do that anywhere else when the same kind of licks occur. That makes me think he had something else in mind here. I've never seen notation like this for winds before. I've seen it in occasionally in strings, and it usually denotes a chord cluster, usually at the beginning or end of a long gliss. That's not what's happening here. Listening to the recording isn't much help, either. There's too much else going on for me to make it out clearly.
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