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Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen, BWV 259

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750

Intermediate · 5/10G major4/4≈ 50 s

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Outside the catalogue, imported in one gesture

This piece is not in the Noctave catalogue: no level of the journey, no notes about it. But its score file (MusicXML) imports in one gesture, and Noctave then plays it as falling notes, with the score, like your own pieces.

We converted it ourselves from the Mutopia Project score, then checked it note by note against the source: 228 notes, no unexplained difference. Noctave lays out the PDF from the same file.

These files are under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, the one of the Mutopia Project edition they come from: you may copy, print, share and change them, crediting “Tomasz Tokarski / Mutopia Project (Mutopia-2016/07/12-2126)” and the licence, and sharing your changed versions under the same licence.

Both files carry this notice themselves: in the footer of the PDF and in the “rights” field of the MusicXML.

The facts

Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Title
Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen
Opus, catalogue
BWV 259
Key
G major
Time signature
4/4
Estimated difficulty
5/10 (intermediate) — measured on the score by the difficulty tool of Noctave
Estimated length
≈ 50 s, at an estimated tempo, repeats included
Licence of the files
CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution
Tomasz Tokarski / Mutopia Project (Mutopia-2016/07/12-2126)
Composition
public domain
Source edition
Johann Philipp Kirnberger, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Typeset by
Tomasz Tokarski, Mutopia Project Mutopia-2016/07/12-2126
Check
228 notes checked one by one against the source, no unexplained difference

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