Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 1994/10

From: Cary Karp <karp@-----.SE>
Subj: Re: Pitch
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 04:26:38 -0400

On Tue, 18 Oct 1994, Roger J. Shilcock wrote:

> In seventeenth-century Germany (and possibly elsewhere, and later),
> organs used with choirs were likely to be tuned roughly a tone lower
> than the prevailing standard; this was known as "Chorton" as contrasted
> with "Kammerton." No doubt, someone on this list knows a lot more about
> this than I do.

In the most common historical terminology choir pitch was higher than
chamber pitch. Praetorius, who I believe is the source of your statement,
is one of very few writers to use the terms in opposite order. He clearly
states that he prefers the terminology used in Prague rather than the more
common one.

   
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