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Invention No. 8 in F, BWV 779, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Bach wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 270 of the piece's 596 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 3 of 7, where the piece as written is level 4.

Level: 3 of 7
As written: Level 4
Notes: 326 of 596
Key: F major
Time: 3/4
Length: 34 bars

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The first 8 bars of Invention No. 8 in F, BWV 779, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 4, and all 4 of its versions are on Invention No. 8 in F, BWV 779's page.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Credits