J.S Bach/Johann Kuhnau - Uns ist ein Kind geboren, BWV 142

[@TheOneAndOnlyZeno]

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[@sameash3153]

If anybody is curious about the E#, it is a french G clef, which is equivalent to bass clef two octaves higher. The E# is actually a G#. Telemann used the french clef for his recorder music too. He also uses it for the soprano chalumeau, which he curiously intended to be transposed and played on the alto chalumeau (which automatically transposes it down a fourth, in harmony with the tenor and strings. Things get confusing from here.) There is something interesting about traverso/recorder playing. Music for traverso can be played on recorder and vice versa with (roughly) the same fingerings if you transpose up/down a minor third. What is the offset between the french G clef and the ordinary G clef? A minor third. You can play a traverso piece in D Major on recorder by mentally replacing the clef with french clef and a key signature of F Major instead. My romantic idea of how efficient baroque composers were makes me want to believe that is the origin of the tradition. Though the tradition has no use here. It would just be the explanation for why recorders picked up french clef at one point of time.

[@dancle167]

One thing to notice is that selections V and VII are very similar.

[@salam6420]

The trumpet voluntary!

[@اسعدنعيم-و8م]

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[@dzinypinydoroviny]

That is a curious misprint. It seems the flute parts are written one line lower than they are supposed to be.

[@tonygemayel3801]

That's what I thought at first, until I noticed the treble clef is on the 1st line not on the second line! I believe it's called a french G clef? I'm not sure, no misprint either way.

[@stefanocrosazzo3262]

No misprint at all. It's called French treble clef and it was commonly used for recorders

[@alessandropalazzani]

French treble clef. A G-clef placed on the first line is called the French clef, or French violin clef. It was used in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for violin music and flute music.[3] It places the notes in the same staff positions as the bass clef, but two octaves higher.

[@alessandropalazzani]

​@@stefanocrosazzo3262ma solo noi italiani studiamo ancora il setticlavio? Anche se in realtà la chiave francese non la si studia più nemmeno in conservatorio, forse perché è uguale a quella di basso in pratica...

[@Rik77]

Recorder music was generally written in french violin clef at the time. Reads like bass clef with the treble clef one line lower. Fun fact: it's one of the ways we can tell if the flute or recorder is intended in german music.