{"title":"The Manuscript Notebooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eHalf document, half notebook. Each one opens with a composer’s own manuscript, reproduced from the library that keeps it, and its story; then staff paper for your own music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, in two volumes · the concertos Vivaldi made for Pisendel · Mozart’s Symphony No. 32 · Brahms’s Handel Variations. A4, 120 pages, 100 gsm paper, spiral-bound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFree US shipping on two or more pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mozart-symphony-32-k318-notebook","title":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 32 (K.318) — Notebook","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha li{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.6;color:#4c443b}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eThe complete autograph of a Mozart symphony. Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 26 April 1779, in Salzburg, Mozart finished a symphony in G major, K. 318. He was twenty-three. He wrote it in brown ink on oblong paper ruled with ten staves — twenty-two leaves, forty-four pages — and that score is kept today at The New York Public Library. This notebook reproduces it \u003cstrong\u003ecomplete: every page, in order, at actual size\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a few pages on the manuscript itself: the story of the symphony; \u003cstrong\u003ethe five people who wrote on its first page\u003c\/strong\u003e — Mozart was only one of them; how to read his notation; and the paper, the ink and the places where he changed his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen \u003cstrong\u003ethe score, all 44 pages\u003c\/strong\u003e, each opening a verso and the recto that follows it, as they face each other in the manuscript — and the two trumpet parts he kept on separate sheets, with a sum he worked out in a margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the pages are yours. \u003cstrong\u003eChoose your paper:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStaff paper\u003c\/strong\u003e — 51 pages ruled like his: ten staves to a page, each eight millimetres high, the size of Mozart's, measured on the score.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLined\u003c\/strong\u003e — 51 lined pages, the lines eight millimetres apart: the height of one of his staves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth end with eight pages for notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mozart wrote on oblong paper, and this notebook has the same shape: it opens the way his score does, a verso on the left and the recto that follows it on the right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe first page\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMozart wrote the music, the title and his name, followed by \u003cem\u003empa\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cem\u003emanu propria\u003c\/em\u003e, “in his own hand.” The date beneath his name, often taken for his, was added by Johann Anton André, the publisher who bought his papers in 1800. Three others added catalogue numbers and notes. The hands are identified in the critical report of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 landscape · 297 × 210 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the story and the complete score, 51 pages of staff paper or lined, 8 pages for notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eW. A. 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Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn September 1861, Brahms dated a manuscript of new piano variations and gave it a personal title: \u003cem\u003eVariationen für eine liebe Freundin\u003c\/em\u003e — variations for a dear friend. It was a birthday gift for Clara Schumann. He was twenty-eight; she turned forty-two that month. That first autograph, twenty pages of music in ink with pencil corrections, is kept today at the Library of Congress. This notebook reproduces it complete: every page, in order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide to the manuscript: the gift and the woman it was for; the premiere she gave in Hamburg on 7 December 1861; Handel's eight-bar Aria, the theme Brahms started from; a few ways into the variations, pair by pair; and the places where this early copy differs from the score that was later printed — including two variations whose order was reversed on the page, with changed numbers and arrows in the margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the twenty pages of the manuscript, reduced to fit the page, each opening a verso and the recto that follows it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the pages are yours: 75 pages of staff paper, ten five-line staves to a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. The manuscript is oblong, and so is the notebook: it opens the way the score does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe gift\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA letter from Brahms dated 11 October still speaks of the birthday variations as music Clara had not yet heard. By 3 November she had almost learned them. She told her daughter Marie that she greatly admired the variations and the craft of the fugue, and that they were exceptionally difficult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 landscape · 297 × 210 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the guide, the complete manuscript (20 pages) and 75 pages of staff paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eJohannes Brahms · Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 · first autograph · September 1861 · Library of Congress, Music Division, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation Collection, ML30.8b .B7 op. 24\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"Staff paper","offer_id":67597991641188,"sku":"SA-NB-BRAHMS-OP24-STAFF","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/brahms-handel-variations-op24-notebook-v12-1.jpg?v=1790818257"},{"product_id":"bach-well-tempered-clavier-book-1-volume-1-notebook","title":"Johann Sebastian Bach — The Well-Tempered Clavier I, Volume 1 — Notebook","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha li{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.6;color:#4c443b}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eThe Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, in Bach's own hand. Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1722, at the court of Köthen, Bach wrote out twenty-four preludes and fugues, a pair in every major and minor key, as a fair copy for his pupils to copy from. More copies were made of it than of any other work of his, and he went on correcting it into the 1740s. The autograph is kept today at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. This notebook reproduces his title page and the first twelve preludes and fugues, C major to F minor, in order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide: what \u003cem\u003ewell-tempered\u003c\/em\u003e meant in 1722; Köthen, and the portrait Elias Gottlob Haussmann painted of Bach in 1748; the title page in its six parts, translated line by line; how to read his score; the little keyboard book Bach began for his son Wilhelm Friedemann; and the inks and second thoughts of a fair copy that was never final.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the manuscript: leaves 2 verso to 25 recto, each verso facing the recto that follows it, every leaf at the same scale, 87% of its size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the pages are yours: 58 pages of staff paper, six systems of two staves to a page, ruled at the size and spacing of the staves Bach wrote on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. This is the first of two volumes; the second follows the surviving second half, F-sharp major to B minor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe measure\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe staves on your pages were measured on the library's photographs, in the empty staves after the C-sharp minor fugue on leaf 10 verso: each staff 9.1 mm from its top line to its bottom one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 portrait · 210 × 297 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the guide, the title page and 46 pages of the manuscript, and 58 pages of staff paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eJohann Sebastian Bach · Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, Book I · autograph · 1722–23 · Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Mus.ms. 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Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1716 the court of Dresden sent one of its violinists, Johann Georg Pisendel, to Venice, where he took lessons from Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi later marked several of his concertos \u003cem\u003efatto per Pisendel\u003c\/em\u003e: made for Pisendel. Two of those autograph scores are kept today at the Saxon State and University Library in Dresden, and this notebook reproduces them in order: the Concerto in D major, RV 205, complete on sixteen leaves, and the first movement of the Concerto in D minor, RV 242, in an early version, on four.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide: Venice in 1716; the dedication at the top of the first page, added later in Vivaldi's hand; how to read his score; two hands, Vivaldi's score beside the solo part Pisendel copied out; the concerto before it was printed in Amsterdam, in the set that opens with \u003cem\u003eThe Four Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e; and how the music survived in a cabinet of the Dresden court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the manuscripts: forty pages, each verso facing the recto that follows it, every leaf at the same scale, 80% of its size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the pages are yours: 61 pages of staff paper, ten staves to a page, ruled like the two pages Vivaldi's score leaves empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. The scores are oblong, and so is the notebook: it opens the way they do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe measure\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe staves on your pages were measured on the library's photographs of leaves 14 verso and 15 recto, which Vivaldi left ruled and empty: each staff 10.3 mm from its top line to its bottom one, one staff every 19.9 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 landscape · 297 × 210 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the guide, the two manuscripts (40 pages) and 61 pages of staff paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eAntonio Vivaldi · Concerto in D major, RV 205, and Concerto in D minor, RV 242 (first movement, early version) · autograph scores · 1716–17 · Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Mus.2389-O-123 and Mus.2389-O-44\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"Staff paper","offer_id":67603545981028,"sku":"SA-NB-VIVALDI-RV205-STAFF","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/vivaldi-made-for-pisendel-rv205-notebook-1.jpg?v=1790869099"},{"product_id":"bach-well-tempered-clavier-book-1-volume-2-notebook","title":"Johann Sebastian Bach — The Well-Tempered Clavier I, Volume 2 — Notebook","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha li{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.6;color:#4c443b}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eThe second half of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, in Bach's own hand. Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1722, at the court of Köthen, Bach wrote out twenty-four preludes and fugues, a pair in every major and minor key, as a fair copy for his pupils to copy from. The autograph is kept today at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. This second volume follows its surviving second half, F-sharp major to B minor: leaves 25 recto to 45 verso, in order, with Bach's title page. One leaf is lost, with the whole F-sharp major fugue and the opening of the F-sharp minor prelude; the notebook shows where, and does not fill the gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide of its own: the last fugue, whose subject sounds all twelve semitones of the octave in three bars, shown on Bach's page with the name of every note; why B-sharp is C on a keyboard; the title page in its six parts; how to read his score; the missing leaf and where the music resumes; and the paper, ink and repairs of a manuscript he kept revising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the manuscript, each verso facing the recto that follows it, every leaf at the same scale, 87% of its size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the pages are yours: 60 pages of staff paper, six systems of two staves to a page, ruled at the size and spacing of the staves Bach wrote on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. This is the second of two volumes; the first holds the first twelve preludes and fugues, C major to F minor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eTwo dates\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title page says 1722. After the last bars of the B minor fugue the manuscript carries another date, 1732, added as Bach returned to his book a decade later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 portrait · 210 × 297 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the guide, the title page and 42 pages of the manuscript, and 60 pages of staff paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eJohann Sebastian Bach · Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, Book I · autograph · 1722–23 · leaves 25 recto–45 verso · Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Mus.ms. 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Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn April 1816 Franz Schubert, nineteen, copied out sixteen of his songs to poems by Goethe in his best hand, and his friend Josef von Spaun sent the book to Weimar with a letter asking the poet's leave to dedicate them to him. Goethe did not reply, and the book came back. It is kept today at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and this notebook reproduces it complete and in order, from Jägers Abendlied to the Erlkönig.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide: the plan for eight books of songs; the sixteen songs, with their place in the manuscript; which Erlkönig this is, the only version with the piano's repeated chords in pairs rather than triplets; how to read his pages; the strip of paper pasted to page 17; and how, in 1821, the songs finally went into print, with bars Schubert added in red chalk so that the singer could catch his breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the manuscript: thirty-one pages of music, each left-hand page facing the one that follows it, every page at the same scale, about 80% of its size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the pages are yours: 71 pages of staff paper, twelve staves to a page, ruled like Schubert's paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. The manuscript is oblong, and so is the notebook: it opens the way it does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe measure\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe staves on your pages were measured on the library's photograph of the page after the Erlkönig, which Schubert left ruled and empty: each staff 7.7 mm from its top line to its bottom one, one staff every 16 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 landscape · 297 × 210 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the guide, the manuscript (34 pages, with the three views of page 17 and the empty page after the last song) and 71 pages of staff paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eFranz Schubert · sixteen songs to poems by Goethe · autograph · 1816 · Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung, Mus.ms.autogr. 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Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final fugue of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue stops in the middle of a bar. Beside it, a later hand noted that the author died while at work on it: \u003ci\u003eist der Verfaßer gestorben\u003c\/i\u003e. The note is usually attributed to his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. The leaves themselves date from 1748–49; Bach died in July 1750. No one knows for certain why the music stops. The five leaves are kept at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and this notebook reproduces them complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide: where it breaks off; the note beside it, and what it says; the dates, and the two operations on his eyes in the spring of 1750; what The Art of Fugue is, and the name B-A-C-H written in notes; the two papers of the manuscript; and why it stops, a question on which the scholars who have studied it disagree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the manuscript: its five pages of music, every leaf at the same scale, 78% of its size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the last of them the music stops, and the page facing it is the first of yours: 102 pages of staff paper, ruled like Bach's, two staves to a system and five systems to a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. The leaves are oblong, and so is the notebook: it opens the way they do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe measure\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe staves on your pages were measured on the library's photographs of the first four leaves, which Bach ruled against a straightedge: each staff 9.4 mm from its top line to its bottom one, two staves to a system, one for each hand at the keyboard, and one system every 37.1 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 landscape · 297 × 210 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the guide, the manuscript (five leaves) and 102 pages of staff paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eJohann Sebastian Bach · The Art of Fugue, the final fugue, BWV 1080\/19 · autograph · 1748–49 · Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung, Mus.ms. 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Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBach's own score of the cello suites is lost. They survive in copies by other hands, and Egon Voss, who edited them for Henle, judges this one the closest to the lost original. Anna Magdalena Bach, his wife, made it in Leipzig between 1727 and 1731, for Georg Heinrich Ludwig Schwanberg, a former pupil of Bach's, together with a copy of the sonatas and partitas for violin. Schwanberg wrote its title page: \u003ci\u003e6 Suites a Violoncello Solo senza Basso\u003c\/i\u003e. 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