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Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, easy version

Melody and a simpler left hand

The melody as Bach wrote it, with each left-hand chord cut to its top and bottom notes. It leaves out 532 of the piece's 1521 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: 989 of 1521
Key: G major
Time: 3/4
Length: 71 bars

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The first 8 bars of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, 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 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Oxford University Press, London, 1926 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750, and so is Myra Hess’s arrangement. Credits