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Old Jul 12 2007, 7:16 AM
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Notice which instruments are in octaves, and which are in closer positions.
Is that anything to do with this?
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Originally Posted by Principles of Orchestration Online
4. Concords (octaves, thirds and sixths) and not discords (fifths, fourths, seconds and sevenths), should be given to instruments of the same kind or colour, except when discords are to be emphasised. This rule should be specially observed in writing for the oboe with its penetrating quality of tone:
I'm about up to the woodwind harmony chapter in that orchestration course as well, but I really didnt get that bit, it sounds really really strict. Can anyone make sense of it?
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