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

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Andrew;

  The screenshot is from 8notes.com:

https://www.8notes.com/school/pdf/piano/bach_six_1.pdf (attached)

Thanks,
Ken


On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 8:58 PM Andrew Bernard
<andrew.bernard@mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>
>

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