Are you thining of Thurston Dart? Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Horton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] alto as tenor? now Brandenburg 2
> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
