This is one of thirty five works comprising the suite from the Anna Magdelena Bach Notebooks commissioned by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is one of thirty five works comprising the suite from the Anna Magdelena Bach Notebooks commissioned by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Presser, this contains the melody of Paul Gerhard's hymn "Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille" but the text does not accompany the piece. The bass was probably written by Johann Gottfried Bernhard (3rd son of Bach's 1st marriage as an assignment. Rods hold all the notes as color coded pierced squares. Presser imagines that the child threads the bright colors to make music. The booklet at the bottom has the name & #510 of the piece, Bach's name in # (14-41) & Presser's name in #35- -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is one of thirty five works comprising the suite from the Anna Magdelena Bach Notebooks commissioned by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Presser writes that this work is her "very personal expression of a mask...There is an emphasis on the eye, the mouth and the ears because those are the organs that I use to communicate within myself and with the external world... The back of [the mouth] carries all the threads that are attached to the alphabet and the numbers. Those strings are like marionettes pulling the letters that form the words that allow us to communicate." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.