Several musicians who are not in the early music field have recently asked me about pitch. So I thought I would write a blog post with a broad overview of historical pitch. Disclaimer, I am going to over generalize, but I just want to give
I yearn from my heartfor a peaceful endbecause here I am surrounded with sorrow and wretchedness I desire to depart from this evil worldI look for heavenly joysOh Jesus, come soon!Herzlich tut mich verlangen (verse 1)First, lets continue with some Bach 101. Bach wrote his sacred cantatas for
Here are some interesting articles from the last week:On the celebration of Ton Koopman's 70th birthday, the New York Times ran a article, see it here.Not on early music, but a nice article here about non-professional musicians. In my world, the word amateur is not