On 13 May 2011 at 19:09, John Howell wrote: > Josquin (or Pierre de la Rue) also > wrote the bass down to a low Bb at the end of "xxxx," but again we > don't know what pitch standard he was writing for.
We don't even know which NOTES they were writing. The clef system back then wasn't tied to a fixed pitch like it is today -- it meant something entirely different to them than it does to us. Because of that, there is never any reason not to transpose that older music to the comfortable pitch range, insofar is you're not changing the overall sound (Ockeghem for 4-part women's choir would be, er, interesting). -- 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
