Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring

(Jesus bleibet meine Freude)

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(Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life)

Arranged and edited by Seymour Bernstein

for Birgit Matzerath

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On the one hand, the rhythmic variant suggested at measure 16, and applied
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the fact that Bach, in his original score, notated 9/8 time only for the first violin,
and 3/4 time for all other vocal and instrumental parts, perhaps suggests that in
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