likewise any number of examples in the scores of various composers.
The use of two instruments of the same colour in octaves, e.g. 2 flutes, 2 clarinets or 2 bassoons etc., if not exactly to be avoided is certainly not to be recommended, as the instruments, playing in different registers will not correspond one with the other. Nevertheless this method may be safely employed when stringed instruments, arco or pizzicato double the two members of the wood-wind, and especially in the middle compass. The process is most satisfactory for repeated notes or sustained passages.
Examples:
The May Night, Act I T—
| Cl. I Cl. II | >[ | 8. |
* Sadko, after 159—
| Ob. I Ob. II | >[ | 3, doubled by pizz. strings. |
* Servilia, after 21—
| Fag. I Fag. II | >[ | 8 + pizz. strings. |
Instruments of the same branch playing in octaves, e.g.