Klarinet Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2011/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuba mirum - K.626 (off-topic)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:52:28 -0500

Sounds like an issue for a Biblical scholar, then, rather than a musical
one. As much as I've read indicates that he earliest Latin versions of
scripture were translated from earlier Greek texts, so I guess the real
authority might be whatever word the earliest Greek versions used and what
it meant at the time.

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Sears [mailto:dsears@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 12:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [kl] Tuba mirum - K.626 (off-topic)

> That aside, is a trombone (whether a modern or period instrument)
> the instrument that is specified in the earliest sources (as it is in my
> Dover score)? If so was it because the slide allowed more pitches than the
> natural trumpets of the period would?

In the German-speaking world, the instrument that ushers in the day of
judgement is known as "die letzte Posaune", the last trombone, rather than
the last trumpet, I guess because that's how Luther's translation of the
Bible has it. That seems like a plausible reason for Mozart to use trombone,
but since he was setting the Latin text and wasn't Lutheran one might want
some confirmation of this idea.

--Doug Sears

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