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Re: Re: Bach 2nd Brandenburg concerto - wrong note?

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Subject: Re: [BRASS-BAND:5221] Re: Bach 2nd Brandenburg concerto - wrong note?
From: "Solo Cornet" <solo.cornet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:41:38 -0000
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> Pardon me if I get this wrong, but wouldn't Bach have been writing for
> 'Clarino' trumpets?

Yes. Absolutely.
It was certainly some sort of natural brass instrument, and I think the
original manuscript calls it "tromba" which literally translates as trumpet.
It's just that Brandenburg 2 is written for an instrument in F rather than
the more common D or C trumpets, and the physical requirements needed to
play this particular trumpet part are far far greater than in anything else
in Bach's output. Deciding just what this was played on is a well explored
musicological point...and well off topic for a brass band list too! I wish I
had kept out of it.

Andy.

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