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[Color online] An annotated excerpt from Haydn’s Symphony 100, ii, mm. 17–23, with WS-S stratification between string and woodwind instruments (SW) in the foreground layer (flutes and violins, red box) and lower string instruments (S) in the background layer (violas, celli, basses, dashed blue box).
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The stratification of layers of differing prominence (foreground/background) is a common technique in orchestration. Musicians heard 23 excerpts containing foreground and background layers as previously determined by music analysts. A given layer comprised either a single auditory stream of one or more blended instruments or a harmonic or rhythmic...