MTO 21.3 Examples: Byros, Prelude on a Partimento

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Example 1. Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 48 in D minor (c. 1700–1720)

Example 2. The Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 48: chordal realization and scale-harmonization principle

Example 3. Annotated Thoroughbass Renderings of J. S. Bach, Preludes in C major, C minor, D major, and Eminor, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (from Lester 1998, 35)

Example 4. Andreas Werckmeister, Harmonologia Musica (1702, 48–49): clausulae

Example 5. C. P. E. Bach, Versuch (1753–63): thoroughbass patterns for the construction of a Bassthema with a“singing upper part” (author’s realization)

Example 6. J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude in C major (1722): analytic reduction

Example 7. J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude in C minor (1722): analytic reduction

Example 8. J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude in D major (1722): analytic reduction

Example 9. J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude in E minor (1722): analytic reduction

Example 10. J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Fugue in C minor, manuscript copy, SBB Bach Mus. ms. P401 (1722): analytic annotations by Bach’s pupil, Bernhard Christian Kayser

Example 11. J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude in D minor, manuscript copy, SBB Bach Mus. ms. P401 (1722): analytic annotations by Bach’s pupil, Bernhard Christian Kayser

Example 12. J. S. Bach, Vorschriften, “Principles for Playing in Four Parts” (1738): “singing” upper parts

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Example 13a. J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude in E-flat minor (1722): analytic reduction

Example 13b. J. S. Bach, Prelude in B minor, BWV 923 (1725), mm. 29–36: annotated

Example 14. The Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 44 in C minor: author’s basic chordal realization

Example 15. The Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 47 in D major: author’s basic chordal realization

Example 16. The Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 49 in D minor: author’s basic chordal realization

Example 17. The Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 53 in E-flat major: author’s basic chordal realization

Example 18. The Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 54 in E minor: author’s basic chordal realization

Example 19. The Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 41 in C major

Example 20. F. E. Niedt, The Musical Guide, Part II (1706/1721), thoroughbass foundation for a prelude

Example 21. Niedt, Prelude in C major from The Musical Guide, Part II (1706/1721), mm. 11–18: imitative texture

Example 22a. J. C. F. Fischer, Musikalisches Blumen-Büchlein (1698), Keyboard Suite No. 5 in E minor, Praeludium:imitative figuration prelude

Example 22b. J. S. Bach, “Christ Lag in Todesbanden,” Chorale Prelude, BWV 625 (1713–15): imitative figurationprelude

Example 23. The Langloz manuscript, Prelude No. 54 in E minor: Manieren for further elaboration

Example 24. J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude in E minor (1722): broken melody and polyphonicstructure

Example 25. F. E. Niedt, The Musical Guide (1700–1721), adapted prelude bass (cf. Example 20)

Example 26. J. S. Bach, Clavier-Büchlein for W. F. Bach, Prelude in C major (1720): analytic reduction

Example 27. J. S. Bach, Clavier-Büchlein for W. F. Bach, Prelude in C minor (1720): analytic reduction

Example 28. J. S. Bach, Clavier-Büchlein for W. F. Bach, Prelude in D major (1720): analytic reduction

Example 29. J. S. Bach, Clavier-Büchlein for W. F. Bach, Prelude in E minor (1720): analytic reduction

Example 30a. Vasili Byros, Prelude in D minor (© 2015): Score and Audio

Example 31. Vasili Byros, Prelude in D minor (2015): analytic reduction

Example 32. Gottfried Kirchhoff, L’A.B.C. Musical, Prelude in C minor: author’s realization

Example 33. Gottfried Kirchhoff, L’A.B.C. Musical, Prelude in A major (1734)

Example 34a. Johann Mattheson, Prob-Stücke IV in E minor, Grosse General-Baß-Schule (1731)

Example 34b. Suggested solutions for mm. 4, 8, 14, and 25 of Example 34a from Mattheson, 1731, 323–25