J. S. Bach's original work is written solely for low strings (2 viola da braccio, violoncello and violone). We've attempted to reflect that by transcribing for "low" recorders, i.e. 2 trebles and bass plus a basso continuo instrument (e.g. violoncello, bassoon or C-bass recorder)
The viola parts of the original work have been left unchanged apart from being transposed an octave up to make them playable on treble recorders. Contrarily several phrases of the violoncello part needed octave transpositions in order to adapt to the range of the F-bass recorder. Some of the octave transpositions are typeset with small types as alternatives, primarily in case of phrases containing low A-flats which are not playable on all F-bass recorders.
In order to typeset the scores from the source files you'll need two program packages:
A MUP binary compiled for your operating system must be installed according to the instructions found at the MUP web site while Qs (Quikscript) is platform independant and ready for use on any computer equipped with postscript handling utilies like Ghostscript/Ghostview. From the directory containing the Quikscript files copy (or make symlinks to) the Qs scripts Qs, cntpagnm.qs and pdffnt.qs to the directory where you store the score typesetting source files. The source distribution contains a shell script, brand61.sh, with all the commands needed for generation of sheet notes and MIDI file. If your opreating system is DOS based (for example Win98) you might want to edit a .bat file for that purpose. The conversion to pdf is made by means of the ghostscript utility ps2pdf.