{"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. Bach P 415\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"Staff paper","offer_id":67603220660324,"sku":"SA-NB-BACH-WTC1-V1-STAFF","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/bach-well-tempered-clavier-book-1-volume-1-notebook-1.jpg?v=1790864181","url":"https:\/\/shop.metrica.art\/products\/bach-well-tempered-clavier-book-1-volume-1-notebook","provider":"Métrica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}