Note 48 — THE PRECURSORS OF BACH FRESCOBALDI—FROBERGER—PACHELBEL—BUXTEHUDE
Wallace Goodrich translation
Following the publication of the "neu eröffnetes Orchester" of Mattheson, Buttstedt had written an essay entitled:
Ut mi sol re fa la Tota musica (Erfurt, 1717),
in which he defended the old solmisation, or system of changes, the si, a changeable note, being disregarded. Mattheson answered it the same year by the "neu beschütztes Orchester" (defense of the new orchestra), with the epigraph:
Ut mi sol re fa la Todte (nicht tota) Musica,
a bad pun on the words tota, the whole, and todte, dead.