Much can be learnt from music of the past in the playing sense and Jesu, Joy in 8 is an excellent example. This a shortened version of J.S. Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of man’s desiring” presented as a piano solo in a 2/3 part texture but referencing in the rhythmic sense a popular music idiom that originates from the recent rock music idiom. The 8/8 rhythmic pattern with rhythmic division being 3+3+2 is very much a 20th century popular music invention but can be both learnt and applied beautifully with Bach’s Jesu, Joy. Keyboard players need to play with a legato touch and follow the suggested editorial detail presented in the score. Making music easy is one of PlentyMusic’s principles and the suggestion is that you can learn music from the past is one that needs to be appreciated by all musicians. In the pdf download a plain score is appended to the edited music score. J.S. Bach was not only a great composer and musician but probably one of the best teachers ever producing along with other members of his family and friends some of the finest collections of music for teaching purposes that could ever be imagined. Amongst J.S.Bach’s family there were 4 composing sons all writing music that linked the baroque with the classical period in music history.

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