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Our next piece is called Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring.

Now to say that you Han Sebastian Bach was an extremely prolific

German composer of the Baroque Period to me is a gross understatement

of the over 1100 Bach piece has catalogued by music Scholars.

224 of them are cantatas.

What's a cantata you say a cantata of box time is Loosely

defined as a multi movement vocal work for one or more voices

with accompaniment some were written for sacred settings

and some for secular settings.

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring is the last movement of one such

cantata composed by Bach in 1716 and revised in 1723.

It consists of a for voice Chorale sung by a choir while

the instrumental accompaniment consists of moving triplets.

It turns out however that Bach himself did not compose the

Chorale Melody.

Instead.

He adopted a Melody composed by Johann show.

the Cupertino Savannah Cupertino symphonic band now performs

Yaesu Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach and

transcribed by Alfred read