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Suite
pour le Luth
BWV 995
Acknowledgements
This edition was set in MusixTEX version T.102. On the level of the typesetting, it owes its existence in no inconsiderable part
to the many people on the TEX-Music mailing list (and its predecessor, MuTEX) who responded to online queries with help
and advice. In particular, my sincere thanks goes to Christian Mondrup and Rainer Dunker for their invaluable assistance
in persuading MusixTEX to produce guitar fingering instructions.
But the finished edition is dedicated to Werner Icking because he remains the chief reason I was able to typeset a work of
this complexity at all. From the moment I first began to experiment with MusixTEX, Werners patience and helpfulness in
troubleshooting source files and providing explanations and instructions via e-mail were nothing short of priceless. Even
during the typesetting of this edition, a year after his death, I frequently found myself searching through the mail archives
of my correspondence with him for the half-remembered solution to some recurrent problem. Without Werner I could not
have begun this edition, much less finished it. His passing leaves me the poorer for a teacher and a friend.
On the level of the music, all my thanks is due to my teacher, Mara Isabel Siewers, during and between whose lessons
this guitar edition gradually took shape and who generously consented to my making it freely available in the Werner
Icking Archive. Much of the fingering is hers outright, the rest has at least her blessing, and the whole bears her stamp so
strongly and to such great benefit that all credit for the musical aspects of this edition is due to her alone. All errors and
inelegancies, of course, remain wholly mine, whether musical or typographical.
Eva Jaksch
8.2.2002
ej@nextra.at
Revision notes
10.04.2002: Minor typographical errors in the fingering were corrected.
15.03.2004: PDF newly generated using slur font bugfix and pdftex to eliminate display problems in some versions of Adobe
Acrobat Reader and decrease file size.
J. S. Bach
Edited for guitar by Eva Jaksch
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Editorial changes
Prelude
Bars 42 & 62:
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Bar 35:
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Bar 56:
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