Isn't that related to the independent church organ tunings back then: the higher they were tuned, the brigher they sounded in a church. Sadly, the human voice cannot be tuned up the same way an organ can...
See e.g. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgelton (in German). On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> wrote: > Since we're OT anyhow... > > On Tue, 24 May 2016 13:58:48 +0100 > Anthonys Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > > Not a modern phenomenon. A lot of Baroque parts are almost unsingable in > > the original pitch because they were written for A=400 or somesuch. > > Why are they almost unsingable? They were sung at the time they were > written. Did the human voice get higher since? > > Just curious. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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