Product Description
Seven variations on Johann Cruger's tune 'Jesu, meine Freude': 1) soft, four part setting with tune in soprano; 2) bicinium, two manuals, melody in right hand with florid bass; 3) one manual, highly ornamented melody and syncopated accompaniment; 4) two manuals and pedal, melody in left hand, florid right hand, syncopated pedal line; 5) one manual, soft, 12/8, melody in tenor; 6) two manuals and pedal, melody in canon between pedal and right hand. Rapid figures in left hand. An alternate version of this variation included in score; 7) one manual and pedal, full organ. ca. 8:30
Useful for concert, worship, and teaching.
A recording of this work (and other works by Gary R. Smoke (BMI) available at Sheet Music Plus) may be found at the Youtube channel: highmeadowmusic
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