![]() There is a school of thought that suggests that everything was played with a swing like feel. Much like you are not an expert on Baroque instruments. Obviously, I am not an expert on Baroque notation. Regarding the claim that "none of the instruments Bach wrote for exist, or are used, today", there is no need to comment on that, beyond saying that it is patently untrue (utterly absurd, even) and, in any case, entirely irrelevant for this discussion. So when typesetting this score, the same adjustment of vertical spacing would have to be done, otherwise the sixteenth notes in the second violin part would be too far to the right. However, it is clear here that the dotted rhythms in 3/4 are not to be played as written here, that is in 3 to 1 ratio, like they normally are (because they would clash with the "triplets" above), but in 2 to 1, or in other words, as if they were a quarter note plus an eight note under a triplet. Notice, the first violin part is in 9/8, but the second violin is in 3/4, as well as all other parts which do not have the "triplet" rhythm. What is even more interesting here is that the mixed time signature is explicit. Just to prove that Bach did use this notation style, here are the first few measures from the very famous chorale "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" from cantata no. Frankly, I would sooner abandon MuseScore and use something else. And I was certainly not about to change four centuries of tradition, just because I didn't know how to do it in MuseScore. It is very similar to Jazz where swing notes are not notated correctly rhythmically, but no Jazz player gets confused by the notation. Nobody who knows anything about Baroque music is confused by this. This is simply the proper way to notate Baroque music. Here is the same measure from Neue Bach-Ausgabe, from 1995: Here is the measure in question (in soprano+bass clef):Īnd yes, of couse I know when version I posted above was published, I already wrote what edition that is, the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe edition. For this specific piece we don't have his manuscript facsimile, but I do have the second best thing, a facsimile of a manuscript by his pupil (and son-in-law) Johann Christoph Altnikol. ![]() Pretty much everyone in Bach's time wrote music like this. ![]()
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