Hi List,
I am currently working on Handel's TORNAMI VAGGHEDIAR(SP?) from ALCINA for our upcoming regional NATS competition. I have a recording of Dessay singing this aria and it was recorded in Baroque pitch. My teacher would like for me to get permission from the publisher to transpose and then perform the piece in this lower key-not because I can't sing it as it is now written, but because it was ORIGINALLY intended to be sung this way. Has anyone ever done this?
The other problem would be finding someone to transpose it-isn't there software out there that you can use to scan a piece of music and have it print it out in another key, or will someone (obviously not me!!) have to actually play it on a digital-computer-hooked-up piano?
How will this sit with the NATS judges? Will I have to tell them that I did this or can I just sing the song?
I would really like to do this because I love this aria and if I sing it what turns out to be a whole step lower it is a different timbre in my voice-there is just a little more meat there in the lower key.
Frankly, I don't see why we just can't all go back to baroque pitch for everything..................:-)
Leslie
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