Re: question on a bach's canon: mordent & repeat

[Brett Duncan]

On 15/06/11 6:28 PM, Rutger Hofman wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 04:41 AM, Marc Mouries wrote:
> > I don't mean the sign on the last bar of each staff but the sign in the
> > final bar of the music, right after "g8 a8 b4" that looks like a 
> > mordant.
>
> I'd say it is just a rest (r4). The last note has something that looks 
> like an erased error on the lowest staff line.
>
> Rutger
>
> >     2011/6/14, Marc Mouries <address@hidden 
> > <mailto:address@hidden>>:
> > > Let me know if this is off-topic but i thought someone on the
> >     list might
> > > know the answers.
> > > I am transcribing a Canon from Bach and would like your input.
> > >
> > > *1) The sign of the last measure.*
> > > The manuscript here:
> >     http://www.greatjsbach.net/mscript_img/bwv1073.jpg and
> > > the score on IMSLP show at the end what looks like a mordent but
> >     is not
> > > attached to a note. Would you have any idea about what it means?

If it *is* meant to be an ornament (and I think it probably is), a 
reasonable interpretation is that it should be played when you repeat 
the canon, leading back onto the first note.

my $0.02

Brett