{"product_id":"bach-b-a-c-h-the-final-fugue-notebook","title":"Johann Sebastian Bach — B A C H (The Final Fugue, 1748–49) — 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 final fugue of The Art of Fugue, in Bach's hand, as far as he wrote it. 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. Bach P 200\/1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/bach-b-a-c-h-why-h-is-a-note\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#4e3629;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"Staff paper","offer_id":67675983085668,"sku":"SA-NB-BACH-FUGA-STAFF","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/bach-b-a-c-h-the-final-fugue-notebook-1.jpg?v=1791558744","url":"https:\/\/shop.metrica.art\/products\/bach-b-a-c-h-the-final-fugue-notebook","provider":"Métrica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}