Re: What is the meaning of a mordent on top of a sharp sign?

[Andrew Bernard]

Are you referring to BWV 933-938  6 Kleine Praludien? If so, I see no 
such passage in any of the preludes.

What source are you engraving from?

I am a harpsichordist so I can fairly confidently say this is not a rare 
notation and all it would mean is that the mordent is to the F sharp not 
F natural.

Prelude 6 is full of these. The first edition - only published in 1802 - 
is full of these, but with the sharp on top of the mordent, which is the 
same.

From Wikipedia:

"In music, a mordent is an ornament indicating that the note is to be 
played with a single rapid alternation with the note above or below. 
Like trills, they can be chromatically modified by a small flat, sharp 
or natural accidental."


Andrew


Kenneth Wolcott wrote on 28/06/2022 1:13 PM:
> Hi;
>
>    I'm trying to engrave a Piano arrangement of JS Bach, Six Little
> Preludes, Nr 1, where the left hand notes have a strange thing I've
> never seen before, a mordent on top of a sharp sign.