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Invention 7, BWV 778

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750

Intermediate · 6/10E minor4/4≈ 1 min

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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: 473 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
Invention 7
Opus, catalogue
BWV 778
Key
E minor
Time signature
4/4
Estimated difficulty
6/10 (intermediate) — measured on the score by the difficulty tool of Noctave
Estimated length
≈ 1 min, at the tempo of the source, repeats included
Licence of the files
public domain
Composition
public domain
Source edition
Bach-Gesellschaft
Check
473 notes checked one by one against the source, no unexplained difference

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