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An instruction splitting one section into parts.
Also known as: Div., Unison marking
Divisi tells a section of players to divide between the notes written rather than each playing all of them. Its opposite, unison, restores the section, and without either marking a chord in a string part is ambiguous between division and double-stopping.
Instructs a section to divide between the written notes rather than each player sounding all of them.
Contexts: Music
Resolves an ambiguity the notation cannot otherwise express, since a chord in a string part could be divided or played as a multiple stop.
Contexts: Music
An italic abbreviation of three or four letters printed above the staff, sometimes with a numeral.