For that reason it can often be a good idea to write a fifth part, a "filler" that fills in some of the space in the middle.
ORCHESTRA STRINGS THEORY FULL
Strings sound particularly resonant and full when there are few gaps between the different parts.
Your browser does not support the audio tag. In this case we won't use the contrabasses.Īs long as you're part-writing is solid and your ranges are on the instruments, this is pretty much guaranteed to sound good. So the soprano goes to Violin I, alto to Violin II, etc. The most basic arrangement is to simply assign the four parts from lowest to highest down the instruments of the string orchestra. 4 Voicesįor all of the arrangement variations, we'll use a typical Bach chorale in four part harmony. However the difference is in no way half (two violas are not literally twice as loud as one), and from a full string orchestra a divisi part can still give a very rich and full sound.īasses are rarely written divisi, and will not be at all in the examples in this tutorial. Naturally there is a slight loss of power when a part is divisi because less players are playing each note. If the viola is divisi in two parts, for example, half of the violas will play the top part and the other half will play the bottom.
(Because this tutorial is a bit notation heavy, I'll include screenshots from Logic for the more DAW oriented readers among you.) A Typical String SectionĪ standard string orchestra is based on the string quartet Violin I, Violin II, Viola, and Cellos, with the addition of Contrabasses on the low end.Ī string arranging technique we'll be using a lot here is divisi, which is dividing a section of the strings into multiple parts. Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace - Anakin's Theme
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