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Invention No. 10 in G, BWV 781, 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 183 of the piece's 439 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: 256 of 439
Key: G major
Time: 9/8
Length: 32 bars

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The first 8 bars of Invention No. 10 in G, BWV 781, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 4, and all 3 of its versions are on Invention No. 10 in G, BWV 781's page.

Score typeset by Allen Garvin for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Credits