>>I have always wondered about the case of the F trumpet in the second >>Brandenburg -- could this have been written for a situation in which the >>strings and ww. played at a Kammerton and the trumpeter used a high >>pitched but nominally Eb or even D trumpet? >> >>Daniel Wolf
Apart from the lack of surviving instruments at such high pitches (and the difficulty of playing extreme harmonics at these pitches) analysis of the counterpoint and instrumentation used by Bach in this work have led me to the conclusion that it must have been intended for the horn and not the trumpet. Just compare the relative positions of the violin, oboe and recorder at the opening and the "trumpet" part must be an octave lower. And before anybody points out that the recorder part is an octave too high, it was standard practice to treat recorders (and flutes) as if they played at four foot pitch, even though they were now notated at sounding pitch. Regards, Michael Lawlor -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
