the English notes a, b-flat, b, c are called a, b, h, c in German
B-major is called H-Dur and b-flat-minor is called B-Moll. Best wishes, Rainer aus dem Spring IS department, development Tel.: +49 211-5296-355 Fax.: +49 211-5296-405 SMTP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Compton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Donnerstag, 25. September 2003 13:36 > To: Lute Mailing List; Michael Thames; Jon Murphy > Subject: Re: Baroque pitch > > > the key "H" is actually b-flat. why the germans did that i > have not a > clue, one of those interesting anomolies that make music > fun~, Robert > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Lute Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael Thames" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:49 AM > Subject: Re: Baroque pitch > > > > For all you younger folk, > > > > Pitch is irrelevant (except when it is grossly different). > Those of us who > > are very senior citizens have found that middle C has > dropped to about A > > when we go for the songs. ( And I will leave this list for > a few days to > > spend a long weekend with my fellow dotards singing our > group songs of the > > late fifties. No, not Elvis, the Princeton Tigertones of the late > fifties.). > > > > As you all know I'm new to lute notation, but as I look at > the French > > notation I see no absolute at to a pitch, nor any key > signature (I'm sure > > I'll be corrected on this). The old German notation had a > key called H > (and > > I have a modern fugue written in the sequence BACH, in honor of the > > composer, I'd have to pull out the music to see what note > the H was, but > it > > was in the Western chromatic scale. > > > > As I'm playing with string lengths and guages for a new > thing I'm doing > I'd > > guess that the change of materials may have changed the > base pitches (not > on > > organs, of course). Perhaps what happened was that > instruments were made, > > and stringed with what was available, and the instrument/string > combination > > defined the pitch. But then when ensemble, or orchestral, > music came in > > vogue there had to be a standard made. > > > > Pure speculation, interested in comments. > > > > Best, Jon > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY DISCLAIMER The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, copy or use this email for any purpose outside of any NDA currently existing between Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH and yourselves. **********************************************************************
