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Keywords
Music--Performance; Musical pitch;
Abstract
The pitch to which the present day performing musical organizations tune, and subsequently the pitch at which they play their selected compositions, has usually been accepted as being the actual pitch intended by the composer for that particular piece. This is not always true. The pitch of the note A, which is used by most orchestras for tuning, has varied greatly over the last three to four hundred year•. Therefore, the pitch used at the time a particular composition was being written may have been higher or lower than the one in use today.
Year of Submission
1962
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Education
Department
School of Music
First Advisor
Myron E. Russell
Second Advisor
William P. Latham
Third Advisor
Willard Poppy
Date Original
1962
Object Description
1 PDF file (98 leaves)
Copyright
©1962 Deloy Davidsen
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Davidsen, Deloy, "A Comparison of Musical Pitches of Selected Compositions Over the Last Three Hundred Years, With Implications for Contemporary Performance" (1962). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2458.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2458
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