Re[2]: the well-tempered clavier

["Mark Williamson" <mwilliamson@alston.com>]

     Well, that is possibly true to some extent, but all you have 
     to do is look at the Notebook and you will see two earlier 
     versions of two of the partitas, just to start with.  I 
     would have to look at it to refresh my recollection on 
     exactly what is there.  I seem to remember some stuff that 
     later found its way into Overture in French Style, but I'm 
     not sure.  There are an awful lot of short pieces, and I can 
     see some of them being by other composers; I just don't 
     know.  But it is easy to spot a lot of things that you will 
     already recognize from other well-known Bachworks . . .


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Subject: Re: the well-tempered clavier
Author:  "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> at internet
Date:    6/6/97 11:09 AM


    WTC 1 was written (a) to 
    demonstrate the modulatory advantages of equal temperament 
     
Possibilities, yes -- I seem to recall that WTK I was written shortly 
after Werckmeister devised the system to make it possible to write in 
keys with more than four accidentals.
     
         might like the Notebook for A.M. Bach.  WTC 2 was written 
     
I thought the Notebook for Anna Magdalena was mostly pieces by visitors 
to Bach's home, not by J.S.B. (or sons).  Except for the first.
     
Rather a nice custom, too bad it's lapsed :-).