Just find a good trumpet list and post this, if you want to hear the
sound of a can of worms opening.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist,
Louisville Orchestra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have always wondered about the case of the F trumpet in the second
Brandenburg -- ...
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
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