Why does the Renaissance flute play everything one octave higher?
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 Published On Jan 24, 2021

In this video, I would like to provide a few of the more concrete sources of evidence that the transverse flute in the 16th and 17th centuries was actually conceived as an instrument which sounded one octave higher than the notated music when played.

Bibliography:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w...

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