Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ

by André Pirro

[183] [The Principal here referred to is undoubtedly the eight-foot Diapason.—Tr.]

[184] Undoubtedly larigot.

[185] Vogel, Leipziger Chronicke. Vol. iii, chap. vi, p. 110.

[186] In combination with the Quintatön of eight feet, says Adlung, the Geigenregal sounds almost like a stringed instrument.

[187] Cromorne. Also called lituus (clarion) by Praetorius (Syntagma musicum), Tome ii, chap. xv, p. 40. Adlung suggests this simple derivation: cor and morne (sad, reserved).

[188] Ueber J.S. Bach's Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke.

[189] Die wahren Grundsätze zum Gebrauch der Harmonie (Berlin, 1773) p. 53. See also Mizler (Necrolog, p. 171) and Forkel (p. 22).

[190] Clavierbüchlein, vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach angefangen in Cöthen den 22. Januar, anno 1720.

[191] See A. Méreaux: Les Clavecinistes de 1637 à 1790. Tableau synoptique et comparatif de tous les agréments avec leur signes et leur effet. Heugel, Paris.

[192] L. Diémer: Les Clavecinistes français du XVIII^e siècle (Durand and Schönewerk).