Musical excerpt showing cello continuo in the first recitative of Bach's Cantata No. 56, "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen"
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.14956/page/n85/mode/2up?q=75">Digitized page</a>, Page 75 of Albert Schweizter's 1911 Vol II "J S Bach"