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Die Kunst der Fuge, Contrapunctus XIV - Canon alla Decima, BWV 1080

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750

Intermediate · 5/10D minor12/8≈ 4 min 30 s

On your Android tablet or phone, tap the .mxl file once downloaded (or share it to Noctave): the app opens on its import screen, with the piece already chosen. Three imports are free, unlimited with Noctave Plus. Step by step: Add your own pieces.

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: 1387 notes, no unexplained difference. Noctave lays out the PDF from the same file.

These files are in the public domain, like the Mutopia Project edition they come from: you may copy, print, share and change them without any condition.

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
Die Kunst der Fuge, Contrapunctus XIV - Canon alla Decima
Opus, catalogue
BWV 1080
Key
D minor
Time signature
12/8
Estimated difficulty
5/10 (intermediate) — measured on the score by the difficulty tool of Noctave
Estimated length
≈ 4 min 30 s, at the tempo of the source, repeats included
Licence of the files
public domain
Composition
public domain
Source edition
Breitkopf & Härtel, 1885
Typeset by
Arnaud Gossart, Mutopia Project Mutopia-2006/05/03-749
Check
1387 notes checked one by one against the source, no unexplained difference

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