ABSTRACT
The quantity of music deals with string-based ensembles, and wind-based ensembles. Seventeenth-century Leipzig was 'the most significant trade centre for eastern Europe'. In additional to the domestic ensembles that were the target for Kuhnau's satire, Leipzig had an important tradition of university student performance. The Sarabandes also contain considerable amounts of note blackening and often exhibit a restless quality not always found in standard versions. In fact, Leipzig's position as a major trade centre, the presence of law courts and the importance of its university suggest the opposite. Johann Caspar Horn also studied at Leipzig University and had quite a different professional background to Johann Pezel. Horn himself moved away from this concept of total organisation; perhaps he found sequences of nothing but the same four dances to be too restricting however imaginatively he dealt with the content. Horn's instruction is clear and unambiguous.
