ABSTRACT

There are reasons to suggest that the jammed writing in the rst half of canon xv was intended to t it into a given page space (Figure 9.1). Since this is a bipartite canon, its second half should be equal to the rst in length, and since the rst half occupied less than 12 staves, the whole canon could t into 24 staves. That succeeding, and assuming that page 39 and page 40 would each be rastered with 24 staves, Bach might still have had at his disposal 36 blank staves. What would these staves be intended for?