TY - JOUR

T1 - The Sinusoid in J.S. Bach’s Handwriting and Printing of The Musical Offering (BWV 1079)

AU - Milka, Anatoly

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The article focuses on certain elements of J.S. Bach’s handwritten musical notation, and in particular on his sinusoidal form of beaming in groups of eighths. Bach’s later manuscripts typically display an increasing use of descending sinusoids implemented by flexion movement of the wrist, indicating disturbance to the blood supply to the brain. This identifiable trait of Bach’s handwriting negates the traditional view that the engraver of the bifolio with canons and the Fuga canonica from the Musical Offering was Johann Heinrich Schübler, and instead enables attribution of the preparation of its engraving copy (Abklatschvorlage) to J.S. Bach himself.

AB - The article focuses on certain elements of J.S. Bach’s handwritten musical notation, and in particular on his sinusoidal form of beaming in groups of eighths. Bach’s later manuscripts typically display an increasing use of descending sinusoids implemented by flexion movement of the wrist, indicating disturbance to the blood supply to the brain. This identifiable trait of Bach’s handwriting negates the traditional view that the engraver of the bifolio with canons and the Fuga canonica from the Musical Offering was Johann Heinrich Schübler, and instead enables attribution of the preparation of its engraving copy (Abklatschvorlage) to J.S. Bach himself.

KW - J.S. Bach

KW - J.F. Schübler

KW - The Musical Offering

KW - bifolio with canons and the Fuga canonica

KW - handwriting, sinusoid

KW - engraving copy

UR - https://www.biu.ac.il/hu/mu/min-ad/2019/Anatoly-Milka_The-Sinusoid-in-the-Musical-Offering.pdf

M3 - Article

VL - 16

SP - 32

EP - 43

JO - Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online

JF - Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online

SN - 0334-2026

ER -