• Fourteen Canons

BWV 1087

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Genre

• Canon

Scoring

unknown

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Date of origin, Work history

• 1747–1748 (autograph fair copy)

• These are fourteen different canon types over the first eight notes of the aria bass of BWV 988. &#8470 11 and 13 largely correspond to BWV 1077 and 1076 (each ob both were slightly revised for the dedicatees).
  
  1. Canon simplex
  2. all’ roverscio
  3. Beede vorigen Canones zugleich, motu recto e contrario
  4. motu contrario e recto
  5. Canon duplex à 4
  6. Canon simplex über besagtes Fundament à 3
  7. Idem à 3
  8. Canon simplex à 3, il soggetto in Alto
  9. Canon in unisono post semifusam à 3
  10. Alio modo, per syncopationes et per ligaturas à 2 / Evolutio
  11. Canon duplex übers Fundament à 5 (= BWV 1077)
  12. Canon duplex über besagte Fundamental-Noten à 5
  13. Canon triplex à 6 (= BWV 1078)
  14. Canon à 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem

relation to other works:

is realization of BWV 988

relation from other works

is adapted in BWV 1076
is adapted in BWV 1077

Comment

• The original source is an autograph appendix to Bach's hand copy of the original print of the Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (see original source). The header is: <i>Verschiedene Canones über die ersteren acht Fundamental-| Noten vorheriger Arie. von J. S. Bach. </i>[followed by canons in riddle form, for titles see incipits] <i>&c:</i>

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Original sources

F-Pn MS-17669 [Originaldruck Klavierübung BWV 988] [Score]

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Edition

NBA V/2, S. 119 (Christoph Wolff, 1977) – Critical report (1981), S. 130

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