{"product_id":"bach-senza-basso-cello-suites-notebook","title":"Johann Sebastian Bach — Senza Basso (The Cello Suites, in Anna Magdalena Bach's Copy) — 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\"\u003eBach's six suites for cello solo, as Anna Magdalena Bach copied them out. 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. It is kept at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and this notebook reproduces it complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide: what a suite was; what \u003ci\u003esenza basso\u003c\/i\u003e means; who the copy was for, and who wrote what on it; Anna Magdalena, singer and copyist; why the suites survive only in copies, and why their slurs are still argued over; the two suites written for a retuned instrument, with the tunings drawn out; and the whole copy on a single page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the manuscript: its 39 written and ruled pages in order, from the title page to \u003ci\u003eLa Fin. des Suittes\u003c\/i\u003e and the two pages left empty after it, every page at the same scale, 78% of its size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the pages are yours: 67 pages of staff paper, ruled after the empty page 38 of her copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat.\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 page 38, which was ruled and left empty: each staff 9.8 mm from its top line to its bottom one. On that page the distance from one staff to the next varies from 20.7 to 27.1 mm; your pages keep its average, 24 mm, so the spacing is even.\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, 39 pages of the manuscript and 67 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 · Six Suites for Violoncello Solo, BWV 1007–1012 · copy by Anna Magdalena Bach · Leipzig, 1727–31 · Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Mus.ms. Bach P 269\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"Staff paper","offer_id":67690999414884,"sku":"SA-NB-BACH-SUITES-STAFF","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/bach-senza-basso-cello-suites-notebook-1.jpg?v=1791776653","url":"https:\/\/shop.metrica.art\/products\/bach-senza-basso-cello-suites-notebook","provider":"Métrica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}