On 8 Sep 2007 at 15:50, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 08.09.2007 dhbailey wrote: > > Huh? what precisely do you mean that it played at a transposed pitch? What > > sort of transposition would someone build into an organ, and why? > > The organ was tuned to appr. 465 Hz, which works out a whole tone above > the chamber pitch (which was a little lower than 415 Hz). The same > situation happened in Weimar, but here the strings were tuned up to > organ pitch, while the wind were given transposed parts. > > IIn Leipzig however, the strings were tuned a tone below the organ, > which was also the pitch of the wind. The organ part was written out a > tone lower. > > Thus the organ functioned as a transposing instrument.
And let me add that in Germany different Kammer- and Chorton pitches were not at all unusual, lest anyone get the impression that this is some kind of oddity of Leipzig and its environs. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
