Example 2. The final cadences of (a) J. S. Bach’s “deathbed” chorale, BWV 668a, as seen in the 1751 edition of Die Kunst der Fuge, and (b) Finnissy’s Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sind in the composer’s handwritten autograph

[The Bach excerpt is played by Christopher Herrick (1996); the Finnissy excerpt is played by Nicolas Hodges (2002)]