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 get down reliably to an E, and D on an exceptionally good day,
but E above middle C is always a scream for me!
At the bottom I expect Gs routinely, and it's an unusual concert
that doesn't go lower: F is common, D rare, but we've sung three
pieces recently with bottom Cs in. :P
My point is that the whole tessitura of the Ninth Symphony is high,
supporting one or both of two hypotheses: a) that Beethoven didnt
give a damn, and b) that Viennese pitch may have been lower in the
1820s, although Bruce Haynes suggested 435 Hz as the lowest likely pitch.
David
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