Hi Giuliano, >From my rudimentary understanding of "chiavette", it is just a way of avoiding having to write music in keys outside the usual modal system. Since this piece is in c-minor, treating the clef as a chiavette clef would make little sense in this respect. Also, pieces in chiavette normally have the bass in either baritone or tenor clef, which is not the case here. I think that by Purcell's time in England, the chiavette tradition had more or less died out, except perhaps in more conservative church music. However, since this is a piece from the theatre it should probably be performed about a tone lower than modern pitch. This puts it in a comfortable soprano range.
Hope that helps! Sam On 21 February 2012 17:49, Giuliano Lucini <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > thanks to Sam I am looking at the original score of Purcell's "Music for a > while". > I noticed that the original clef for the canto is a Treble clef: maybe is > this written "in chiavette"? If so, which should be the correct > transcription - down by a fourth? > Thanks, > Giuliano > > Il 20/02/2012 22:55, Sam Chapman ha scritto: >> >> I just happened to have it on my computer...I've sent it to you in a >> seperate mail. >> >> Hope it goes down well with the students! >> >> Sam >> >> >> >> On 20 February 2012 16:59,<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, folks - would anyone have a pdf of original music for Purcell's >>> "Music >>> for a While" that they could kindly send me, or direct me towards? I'm >>> doing >>> a lecture for high school students - yikes - and I want to show 'em some >>> original basso continuo scores. There's nothing on the 'net that I've >>> been >>> able to find except modern scores. Thanks very much - Benjamin Stein >>> >>> ------------- >>> http://benjaminstein.ca/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> > > -- Sam Chapman Oetlingerstrasse 65 4057 Basel (0041) 79 530 39 91
