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Das Wohltemperierte Clavier I, Praeludium XII, BWV 857
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
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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: 502 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 “Sven Reichard / Mutopia Project (Mutopia-2018/06/04-2226)” 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
- Das Wohltemperierte Clavier I, Praeludium XII
- Opus, catalogue
- BWV 857
- Key
- F minor
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Estimated difficulty
- 7/10 (advanced) — measured on the score by the difficulty tool of Noctave
- Estimated length
- ≈ 1 min 15 s, at the tempo of the source, repeats included
- Licence of the files
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Attribution
- Sven Reichard / Mutopia Project (Mutopia-2018/06/04-2226)
- Composition
- public domain
- Source edition
- Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 14, Breitkopf und Härtel, 1866, Plate B.W.XIV, pp.44-45
- Typeset by
- Sven Reichard, Mutopia Project Mutopia-2018/06/04-2226
- Check
- 502 notes checked one by one against the source, no unexplained difference
Play it in Noctave
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