At 4:15 PM -0600 2/26/07, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
I don't know about the baroque, but trumpets in G (Robbins Landon calls them "English trumpets") were quite unusual for Haydn. The 88th symphony is quite unusual in having trumpets and drums in G in the the 3rd (and probably 4th) movement, and the appearance of (IIRC) C trumpets in the second movement after a trumpetless opening movement was considered quite a surprise.
By Haydn's time, the trumpets in question no longer were the same as the baroque trumpets, and even the parts they played were more like the rhythmic inner parts in earlier trumpet ensembles, no longer the high clarino parts. I can't swear to it, but I think that in Haydn's time the trumpets, like the horns, could easily change keys by changing crooks. Handel's trumpets seem to have been in D (relative to the pitch he used), while Purcell's seem more likely to have been in C (relative to the pitch HE used). Bach's also seem to have been in D (relative ...), except for the elusive Brandenburg trumpet.
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