concert pitch

Figure 6.21: In the top line, the melody is written out in concert pitch; on the second line it has been transposed to be read by an alto saxophone.

Many music lovers prefer the sound of period performances, where original baroque-era instruments are brought into play, and the pitch is usually a semitone lower than today’s standard concert pitch.

So far they seem quiet enough, but they are all armed to the teeth and keyed to concert pitch.

He possesses an instinctive knowledge that she has kept her vitality keyed up to concert pitch by antipyrine, phenacetine, and the other drugs to the use of which modern progressive women are addicted.

I had been wound up to high concert pitch by that morning round with Johnny and could not play a bit in the afternoon.