On 25/05/16 07:05, Johan Vromans wrote: > Since we're OT anyhow... > > On Tue, 24 May 2016 13:58:48 +0100 > Anthonys Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > >> Not a modern phenomenon. A lot of Baroque parts are almost unsingable in >> the original pitch because they were written for A=400 or somesuch. > > Why are they almost unsingable? They were sung at the time they were > written. Did the human voice get higher since? > > Just curious. > Maybe I didn't word it very well. Take a Baroque part, written for eg A=400, and try and sing it at the modern A=440 without transposing it.
Painful ... in other words the pitch has risen but, obviously, our voices haven't risen with it. Dunno why I was doing it, but I discovered all this from Wikipedia some time ago. Iirc A=440 is the original ISO standard number 1 :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
