I wasn't just being funny with my "can of worms" answer. The theory of
horn in place of trumpet on Brandenburg 2 (BWV 1047) was presented back
in the late 60s by one scholar who had latched upon a copy of a third
generation part labeled horn. There was an ensuing squabble, I believe,
which trumpet players have always felt they won. I'll try to find out
more, if it matters to anyone.
RBH
At 5:00 AM -0400 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
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