Timeline for What kind of temperament to play Monteverdi with?
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| May 31, 2014 at 7:20 | comment | added | thSoft | Thank you for your insights! For the record, due to our budget, we were playing only with string instruments & continuo, so it would have been easy to tune the organ to 1/4-comma meantone, but we were playing at A=466Hz, which we achieved by usig A=415Hz instruments and transposing a major second up, so we played with equal temperament. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 7:05 | vote | accept | thSoft | ||
| May 31, 2014 at 2:26 | comment | added | Caleb Hines | Tell me about it! It's slightly annoying whenever I try playing my A=440 Recorder along with a Baroque music recording on Youtube, only to discover it was recorded in historical pitch. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 2:08 | comment | added | user1044 | The person asking the question said that their group plays on period instruments, which would be designed for the lower diapason. In order to play in A=392 or A=415, you have to have special woodwind and brass instruments that are built for that tuning. You can't "re-tune" woodwind and brass instruments that were built for A=440 down that low. By the same token, if you are going down to A=392, bowed string musicians may have to change to a thicker gauge of strings. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 2:06 | comment | added | user1044 | So I would say quarter-comma meantone with the pitch A tuned to either 392Hz or 415Hz (I am not sure which was used in Monteverdi's Italy; in France around that time it was A=392Hz.) We refer to the tuning of A as the diapason or kammerton. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 1:08 | history | answered | Caleb Hines | CC BY-SA 3.0 |