Inventions &Sinfonias, BWV 772-801 by Johann Sebastian Bach; Richard JonesReview by: Lois I. RowellNotes, Second Series, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Sep., 1985), p. 165Published by: Music Library AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/898281 .

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Critical commentary appears in the re- marks (in German, English, and French) which accompany each suite.

Hicks has also included, in the Anhang, the movements found in earlier versions of the suites, omitted by Handel from his 1720 publication. Of particular interest to the performer is the editor's inclusion of or- namentation found only in the secondary sources, since these indications may reflect Handel's own practice. Such ornaments are shown in small print, whereas purely edi- torial additions appear within parentheses. Thus, the musical text displays a clear vi- sual distinction among the three sources- original edition, secondary sources, and editorial suggestion.

Matters of interpretation, especially con- cerning rhythm, are addressed in the pre- face, supplemented by footnotes to the musical text. Printed fingering is both un- obtrusive and practicable. Compared with the edition of these suites in the Hallische Hdndel-Ausgabe (Kassel, 1955), for which the critical report had still not been published at the time of this review, the present edi- tion is the more informative document, with regard to both musical text and questions of interpretation.

Johann Sebastian Bach. Inventions & Sinfonias, BWV 772-801. Edited and annotated by Richard Jones. [Lon- don]: The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Presser), 1984. [Introduction, 11 p.; music, 77 p.; notes, index, 3 p.; $10.00]

Both the present edition and that of Ru- dolf Steglich (the latter published by Henle Verlag in 1979) are based on the four ex- tant manuscript sources. Richard Jones, however, has provided more detailed and extensive textual notes, together with a his- torical introduction and a description of the sources themselves. While he has taken as his primary source the autograph fair copy of 1723, Jones also incorporates the orna- ments and slurs from the Clavier-Biichlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach into the main text, with references in the textual notes to distinguish the markings in question. Ap- propriately, markings from the two non- autograph sources, as well as all editorial suggestions, are shown in small print in the

subsidiary text, the latter also including re- alizations of the ornaments. Missing, how- ever, is Bach's table of ornaments from the Clavier-Biichlein; despite its availability in several other editions, it would have been a useful reference source here.

A valuable feature of Jones's excellent edition is his discussion of style and inter- pretation, an expansion of Bach's own ex- planation, in his introduction to the Inven- tions and Sinfonias, that the pieces are above all studies in a cantabile style of playing. Bach's other purpose, that of teaching compositional technique, is reflected in the editor's notes on the individual pieces, which deal with contrapuntal structure and for- mal design in addition to questions of phrasing, tempo, and style.

Idem. Orgelbuchlein; with introduc- tion, figured-bass chorales, texts, and commentary. Edited and prepared by Robert Clark and John David Peter- son. St. Louis: Concordia, 1984. [In- troduction, facsims., 25 p.; music, pp. 26-144; bibliography, index, pp. 134- 36; no price cited]

This new edition of the Orgelbiichlein is the first with annotations to appear in the United States since that of Albert Riemen- schneider, The Liturgical Year (Orgel- biichlein), published by Ditson, 1933. While Riemenschneider's work, as acknowledged by Clark and Peterson, "remains a testa- ment to [his] thorough scholarship and de- votion to the music," the present edition is superlative in its incorporation of recent research on Bach's music, modern con- cepts of performance practice, and histor- ical principles of organ registration. The stimulus for its preparation was, in part, the renewed availability of the autograph (Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Mus. ms. au- togr. Bach P 283), now published in fac- simile as Series II, volume 11 of Documenta musicologica, edited by Heinz-Harald Lohlein (Kassel, 1981). Based on the autograph, with reference to all known manuscript copies, the Clark-Peterson edition not only pro- vides the performer with an accurate text but also includes a carefully documented introduction to the music. There is an es- say on the development of the organ cho- rale and the genesis of the Orgelbiichlein, a

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