A similar operation is used in scoring passages covering the entire orchestral scale, or a great portion of it. When one instrument is on the point of completing its allotted part, another instrument takes up the passage, starting on one or two notes common to both parts, and so on. This division must be carried out to ensure the balance of the whole passage.
Examples:
Snegourotchka 36, 38, 131—Strings.
The Tsar's Bride 190—Wood-wind.
Sadko 72—Strings (cf. [Ex. 112]).
" 223—Strings.
The Christmas Night, before 180—Strings, wind and chorus (cf. [Ex. 132]).
* [No. 237.] The Christmas Night, before 181—String figure.
* Servilia 111—Strings (cf. [Ex. 88]).
" 29, 5th bar.—Ob.—Fl.; Cl.—Bass cl., Fag.