Jeremey McMillan wrote:

>Our 'A' today didn't sound the same back then.  They used A415 or higher.
>Their 'A' would probably sound flat to us.  I wondering how these tunings
>affected the music composed back then.

In most cases I believe "early" tunings were somewhere around A=415.
I think you'll find differently in Baroque-period England, however.
Henry Purcell heard something more along the lines of AF6.  Certainly
the "characters" of the different keys had at least some effect on the
music composed.

Wes Crone ([log in to unmask])