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Tuned with A = 415 Hz.

J. S. Bach has barely specified the instrument(s) except for “Trio” and “Canone perpetuo” (“flauto traverso, violin and continuo”). Still worse, the organisation is enigmatic and scattered with riddles. Thus instrumentation (and sometimes finding the “real” music intended by the composer) should be done by guess work.

Ricercare a 3 voci : harpsichord sound

Ricercare a 6 voci: two harpsichords

This part is enigmatic: there are five (5) clefs used – treble, soprano, alto, tenor (twice) and bass. The site owner assigned the first, third and fifth staves to one harpsichord and the second, fourth and sixth to another. Of course, all staves could be assigned to one harpsichord, like this –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViCLYbtJ1bQ, but the site owner prefers the two-harpsichord organisation.

Canone Inverso (or Canone Cancrizzante)

Seemingly the simplest canon in BWV 1079 with only one stave. Actually, another stave is concealed as a mirror image (hence the name “Inverso”), and each stave has to go back from the end to the start: that is, two mirror images are hidden, one bottom-to-top, the other one end-to-start.