In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Howell writes: >>IIRC, there is also a low B in Brandenburg 3, but that may have been >>intended for a six-string violone.
>I with I had a score at hand to check this, but it seems kinda >questionable. Could somebody check and report back to us? While >bass tuning was and is the least standardized in the string family, I >believe the violone was tuned an octave below the bass viola da >gamba, which would take it down to a low D, a whole step below the >low E of the "normal" bass violin, but nowhere near a low B. The >lowest note I've seen throughout Bach's work is low C, the lowest >note of the cello in standard tuning and the lowest note available on >the organ keyboard. (This is entirely separate from the question of >the original, intended pitch for the Weimar cantatas, which is a very >special case.) I found the score, and my memory was at fault. The part is marked "Violone e Cembalo" and has lots of low Cs. Of course, if he had that note on his keyboard but not on his violone, he might still have written a single part and left it to the player to cope, but rather more tellingly, in the second concerto, the keyboard and 'cello have the combined part, and the "Violone di ripieno" part has low Cs. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
