2017-11-15 10:21 GMT+01:00 J. Claudio Di Veroli <[log in to unmask]>:

> > Vincent wrote: whenever a piece of music has the notes
> of the left hand spread beyond reach, 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.?
>
> For example in F. Couperin's L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin.
>
>
I think Vincent was asking about very spreaded chords like the ones one
could expect to find in music written for short-octave harpsichords, say a
tenth or an eleventh... those you cannot reach on a normal keyboard.

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