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

[Jeff Olson]

Ken,

You're welcome, but Simon was right and I was wrong: your screenshot showed three such measures, so it likely is BWV 939.

IMSLP344372 also includes that piece as No.5 on page 6, and the engraver did a similar treatment there:

But the "321" fingering (above) should have been "231" as in the BWV 924 example (crossing my fingers this time).

Jeff

On 6/28/2022 1:08 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:

HI Jeff;

I had not yet looked at the specific scores from IMSLP, this is a very nice detail.

Thank you for noticing and mentioning this; it expands my music knowledge as well as my engraving skills.

Ken

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:01 PM Jeff Olson <jjocanoe@gmail.com> wrote:

Ken,

It's BWV 924, which appears as No.8 in https://imslp.org/wiki/Little_Preludes_and_Fugues_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)#IMSLP344372.

And this edition also serves as a Rosetta Stone for the mordent# issue, as the engraver gives three successively abbreviated instructions on how to play it.

Below is an excerpt fromthe bottom of page 8 of this pdf:

This also suggests a way to engrave it without using the mordent# annotation.

Jeff

On 6/28/2022 9:23 AM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:

Thank you Simon.

I had already looked briefly at IMSLP Bach Preludes, but there are so
many of them, I was not sure which one to choose from as a reference
to compare with the ones found at 8notes.com (I already have some
downloaded from Michael Kravchuk's website as well).

  I have just downloaded several of these from the link you suggested.

Thanks,
Ken

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 7:57 AM Simon Bailey <binabik@gmail.com> wrote:

It seems it is BWV 939.
See: https://imslp.org/wiki/5_Kleine_Pr%C3%A4ludien,_BWV_939-943_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)
for multiple different versions.

Kind regards,
sb

On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 15:50, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew;

  I'm just trying to engrave what 8notes.com claims is the first of
the Six Little Preludes.  Perhaps 8notes.com made a mistake? There is
no reference to a BWV catalog number.

Thanks,
Ken

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 1:42 AM Andrew Bernard
<andrew.bernard@mailbox.org> wrote:

Are you actually referring to the 5 Kleine Praludien BWV 939-943, not
the six?

Andrew

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