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are your refering to the Rimsky online orchestration course?
If so, well, yes it IS a bit strict, but remember that his goal was homogeneity and a very particular tonal colour.
Yes, it is related.
I tend to accentuate the clarinet sound in octaves, as well as place my horns, when there's only two of them, in octaves.
Don't think of it as "strict" think of it as a sort of guidelines from which to expand.
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-Debussy-
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