Musician and musicologist
Christopher Stembridge’s special field of interest is Italian keyboard music of the renaissance and early baroque.
He has given particular attention, since 1980, to historic keyboard instruments that have, or are known to have had, extra chromatic keys, split-keys.
On this website you will find a variety of articles and recordings, as well as details of editions and CDs, and also links to other sites.
New:
Since English organs of the 16th and early 17th centuries were normally pitched high with the bottom note C playing a 5ft pipe - sounding approximately G at modern pitch - it would seem that most music written specifically for organ at the period should be transposed up. From the beginning of the 17th century larger organs were built with C at 10ft pitch and music apparently intended to be played at that pitch should be transposed down
My transcriptions of this music as played may be downloaded here.
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