Hi Sam, On 23/05/2016, 5:43 AM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Sam Bivens" wrote:
I want to mimic the given edition as closely as possible; Do you want to do that or do you want to get close to what Bach wrote? If you look at the Bach autograph of this piece, available in the Digital Bach Archive, you will see not only no nachschlag there but hardly any phrasing slurs, and definitely not the dotted one in your sample image. The ornament in your edition is an editorial insertion, and cobbled together with type punches they had lying around I suppose. For myself, as a harpsichord player and student of Bach, I’d prefer to set from the autograph manuscript where possible. Of course, then you must become musicologist and editor yourself, but there is something to be said for that. And I am not keen on propagating incorrect editorial decisions and misconceptions through further typesetting of them. Of course, there are a lot of MSS of this work by various copyists, available in the same archive. I have not checked them all. But if Bach himself is leaving out the ornament signs it means he expects you to be a good enough musician to understand what to do without being told – as per normal in 18c music. Here’s the Bach Digital Archive: https://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/275-bach_digital__johann_sebastian_bachs_autograph_manuscripts.html Attached is the fragment in question from the autograph. Andrew
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