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French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816
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: 1122 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
- French Suite no. 5 in G major
- Opus, catalogue
- BWV 816
- Key
- G major
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Estimated difficulty
- 5/10 (intermediate) — measured on the score by the difficulty tool of Noctave
- Estimated length
- ≈ 3 min 10 s, at an estimated tempo, repeats included
- Licence of the files
- public domain
- Composition
- public domain
- Typeset by
- Joel Mayes, Mutopia Project Mutopia-2008/06/17-99
- Check
- 1122 notes checked one by one against the source, no unexplained difference
Play it in Noctave
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