![]() ![]() I am not a Mozart afficionado, but with period instruments and lowered tuning ,I fell in love with Mozart. I had the opportunity of hearing Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” with period instruments and lowered tuning. Historically Informed Performance (HIP) has been around for a long time in the 20th/21st centuries and Early Music musicians are all over the tuning, techniques, and using instruments of the period (or facsimilies) Andrew Parrott’s groups do original tuning. Ragnar Bohlin with the SF Symphony Chorus is all about tunings and his choirs (generally toward the end of the season) show it!įinally, glad you posted Vivaldi in A=415 Youtube Choirs and Instruments use either just or a combination of just and Pythagorean tuning. ![]() There are several different temperament systems and several are used now. Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” was a theoretical work (although it is a series of 48 Preludes and Fugues in every key) because equal temperament was a controversial idea in Bach’s day. There were huge arguments over it and J.S. Great book about temperaments, which is even more fascinating than tuning pitches, is Temperament by Stuart Isacoff. ![]() RE: Temperament – A great area to explore Not certain, but I heard San Francisco is A=441, many are at 442, and Von Karajan pushed his orchestras as high A=452. ![]() Orchestra directors are still playing with concert pitch. ![]()
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