Title: Transposition in seventeenth century English organ accompaniments and the transposing organ
Description: This brave fellow tried to understand early organ music in English Cathedrals.   I live in England, sing tenor, play the organ, have visited all but 2 Cathedrals, regularly email organists, masters of choristers, researchers, organ builders.   We in England - at great and pains-taking expense - are just beginning to see a little beyond what JBC wrote back in 1974.   Basically, from 1460s-1640s, the ancient Britons sang to an organ which had C/F as the lowest note (sounding around 100Hz, the bottom note of a rank of 5ft open flues).   We have music going back to earlier days (where folk used a C-based organ and an F-based organ) and this is enough to drive us mad, let alone the stout visiting guy JBC.   The lad did damn well.   Still worth a read.   Only serious error is he thought the case at King's Cambridge was 1605-6 original;  it's half a century later.
Subjects: Modern Civilization, Musical accompaniment, Organ (Musical instrument), Organ pipes, Transposition (Music)
Places: England
Time periods: 17th century