Re: [Finale] OT Violone tuning in Bach

[Michael Cook]

As I said before, the 6th Brandenburg concerto has a low Bb for the 
violone (last note of last movement). The part is marked "Violone e 
Cembalo" so maybe Bach was thinking keyboard here. But it's 
interesting to note that the cello part, which in the few preceding 
measures is identical to the violone part (cello + violone therefore 
playing in octaves), goes up an octave at this point. Bach had 
apparently taken the trouble to make the cello part fit the range of 
the instrument, so I think it's quite likely that he really expected 
the violone to have that low Bb.

Michael Cook
At 22:14 +0000 4/03/2005, Ken Moore wrote:
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.
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