• Theoretische Aufzeichnungen zum Kontrapunkt / "Canones aliquot per Josephum Zarlinum"

BWV 1130

Genre

• Musica theoretica

Scoring

unknown

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Date of origin, Work history

• c. 1742/1743 (autograph handwriting)

• From Johann Sebastian Bach's music library comes the copy of an indirect reference to the treatise by Seth Calvisius <i>Melopoiia sive Melodiae condendae ratione</i> (Erfurt 1592/Magdeburg 1630) returning extract (Kapitel 19–20), which in turn goes back to <i>Le Istitutioni harmoniche</i> part 3 (Venedig 1558).
  Bach often shortened and altered the Latin headings and musical examples of Calvisius (siehe Werbeck BJ 2003).
  As the autograph (passed down together with BWV 1131) was evidently replaced by other sheets, the original composition of the lost volume is unclear. It is possibly a fragment of a more extensive counterpoint theory; cf. BWV 1131.

Comment

• The header of the autograph goes (fol. 2r): <i>Canones aliquot per Josephum Zarlinum</i> (Musikverlag C. F. Peters; Depos. in D-LEb: Peters N 1)

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Edition

NBA Supplement, S. 45 (Peter Wollny, 2011)

Literature

• Walter Werbeck, <i>Bach und der Kontrapunkt</i>. Neue Manuskript-Funde, in: BJ 89 (2003), S. 67–95

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