Or a quick and dirty account here: [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch#Pre-19th_century Bill From: howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> To: Baroque Lute List (E-mail) <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 19:41 Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Compilation of historical pitches? On Nov 30, 2011, at 10:22 AM, [2]theoj89...@aol.com wrote: > From extant organ pipes and wind instruments and knowledge of their date and origin, I assume that one can roughly determine what pitches (e.g. A=392, 410, 415, etc) were used in different regions at different times. My non-musicologist's mind would also guess that maybe some musicologist has compiled this data? Is there a source that might help determine what pitch was used in during the renaissance and baroque periods in different regions of europe? Or is it not this easy? A very impressive, fact-loaded survey of the subject, complete with charts: Bruce Haynes (1942-2011): History of Performing Pitch: The Story of "A" (Scarecrow Press 2002) ISBN 0810841851 -- To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
-- References 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch#Pre-19th_century 2. mailto:theoj89...@aol.com 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
