Hi Vincent,

I cannot state so with authority, but I would say none. I have not seen
anything written about this from the period. I would say it is an assertion
based on a personal pragmatic approach. And let's not forget, most scores
of the period are generally principally descriptive in nature, and not
rigidly prescriptive as they came to be in 19C and later.

So it will be interesting to see what our esteemed colleagues can unearth!

Andrew


On 15 November 2017 at 12:02, Vincent Ho <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> whenever a piece of music has the notes
> of the left hand spread beyond reach, in regardless of how you tune it,
> s. rampe mentiined in his additiin of muffat that it was a well known
> practice to transpose whatever notes up an octive in order to solve the
> problem.  My question is, what historical treatise or musical publication
> contains the instruction of this practice.?
>
>

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