Re: question on a bach's canon: mordent & repeat

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/6/15 Marc Mouries <address@hidden>:
> Let me know if this is off-topic but i thought someone on the list might
> know the answers.
> I am transcribing a Canon from Bach and would like your input.
>
> 1) The sign of the last measure.
> The manuscript here: http://www.greatjsbach.net/mscript_img/bwv1073.jpg and
> the score on IMSLP show at the end what looks like a mordent but is not
> attached to a note. Would you have any idea about what it means?

I'm not good enough in reading manuscripts, but what i see here:

> http://imslp.org/wiki/Canon_in_A_minor,_BWV_1073_%28Bach,_Johann_Sebastian%29

looks like custos to me. (it would indicate that the next note - in
this case a note at the beginning of the piece - is an "a")

HTH,
Janek