I am not clear just what the issue is here. C and A are defined by the
distance between them; A is not a sharp C. All the notes are equally
special, there is nothing otherwise special about middle C, and it is
in any case only approximately in the middle for the modern concert
piano. For most
At 04:50 26-04-13, Richard Dobson wrote:
I am not clear just what the issue is here.
The issue is that if one is going to be precise about the Physics and
Maths discussed here, one should preferably extend that precision to
musical considerations.
...there is nothing otherwise special
On 26/04/2013 15:35, David Pickett wrote:
..
For most other instruments it is not in the middle at all. It is is
the lowest note on the standard flute, almost the highest note on the
bassoon
Have you heard the first note of the Rite of Spring - a C one octave
higher? This note is playable
--On 26 April 2013 16:28 +0100 Richard Dobson
richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Beethoven 9th asks the choir basses to sing a top D and that I can
confirm is decidedly painful at modern concert pitch. At early 19th-C
chorton it was hopefully a bit easier. Trained good singers can
manage
--On 26 April 2013 14:12 -0500 David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote:
Yes, but mostly the bottom note is an A, with only once a G. And when
you get to the important fortissimo top Es and Fs, do you leave them to
the Tenors?
Eh, what do you sing?
The tenors have enough on their plates dealing
On 26/04/2013 20:12, David Pickett wrote:
At 10:28 26-04-13, Richard Dobson wrote:
Beethoven 9th asks the choir basses to sing a top D and that I can
confirm is decidedly painful at modern concert pitch. At early 19th-C
chorton it was hopefully a bit easier. Trained good singers can manage
it,
At 14:30 26-04-13, Paul Hodges wrote:
--On 26 April 2013 14:12 -0500 David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote:
Yes, but mostly the bottom note is an A, with only once a G. And when
you get to the important fortissimo top Es and Fs, do you leave them to
the Tenors?
Eh, what do you sing?
I can
To each his own. I do not care for the creeping up
of pitch.
Yes of course re equal temperament. But the
original subject was about 440 versus middle C--
pretty far off however one figures it.
In just intonation (where C= (3/5) 440 if A 440 is
the standard) middle C is 264 , it is still
pretty
