slurs on double-stemmed consolidated instruments
Posted: 08 Nov 2022, 22:30
weird title, had trouble putting it into words briefly, probably more because I'm not sure of which terminology to use.
anyway, here goes:
two instruments share a staff in and orchestral score.
their material is almost entirely rhythmically the same, so they share stems through most of the passage in question.
there are a few measures where the instruments share SIMILAR rhythmic patterns but not identical (for example, one holds a dotted half, while the other slurs through three quarters).
In those not-quite-identical passages, they split stems, one up, one down.
Their slurs are identical, even in the passages with split stems.
Should only one single slur appear above the top instrument's music where their music is split-stemmed?
Or should they, for those passages, each have their own slur? (taking into consideration that the slurs would still be identical, regardless of stem direction)
anyway, here goes:
two instruments share a staff in and orchestral score.
their material is almost entirely rhythmically the same, so they share stems through most of the passage in question.
there are a few measures where the instruments share SIMILAR rhythmic patterns but not identical (for example, one holds a dotted half, while the other slurs through three quarters).
In those not-quite-identical passages, they split stems, one up, one down.
Their slurs are identical, even in the passages with split stems.
Should only one single slur appear above the top instrument's music where their music is split-stemmed?
Or should they, for those passages, each have their own slur? (taking into consideration that the slurs would still be identical, regardless of stem direction)