--On 26 April 2013 16:28 +0100 Richard Dobson <[email protected]> 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, but (without going falsetto) it still does not come > especially recommended! I would be surprised not to have many top Ds to sing in a normal concert, and probably the odd D#/Eb. E appears sometimes, and the basses had a top F in the last concert I sang, though that is unusual. Paul -- Paul Hodges _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
