Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 8th 2007 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.
Also known as Myra's Frolics, Schop's Frolics.
X: 1
T: Bach's Frolics
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Gmaj
BGA Bdc ced|dgf gdB GAB|cde dcB ABG|FGA DFA cBA|
BGA Bdc ced|dgf gdB GAB|c2e dBG Edc|BAG DGF ~G3:|
|:ADE FA^G GBA|AcB cAE CDE|=Fdc dAF DEF|Edc dB^G EFG|
AcB ced d=fe|ea^g aec ABc|d2=f ecA =Fed|cBA EA^G ~A3:|
|:ecd eg=f g_ba|ac'b c'a=f def|egf gec GA_B|AcB cA=F DEF|
ECD EGF GBA|Bgf gdB GAB|c2e dBG Edc|BAG DGF ~G3:|
We've had Pachelbel's Frolics, and now we have Bach's. Who says classical and trad are incompatible? Melodic motifs of Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring have been butchered and patched back together again in the form of a slip jig. LOL.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by Dow
From "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV147
Here's the lyrics:
Jesus bleibet meine Freude,
meines Herzens Trost und Saft,
Jesus wehret allem Leide,
er ist meines Lebens Kraft,
meiner Augen Lust und Sonne,
meiner Seele Schatz und Wonne,
darum laß ich Jesum nicht
aus dem Herzen und Gesicht.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by slainte
Well, Bach didn't compose a piano piece "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring." Someone else rewrote it based on this choral piece.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by slainte
Wikipedia says "The melody was not composed by Bach, as is often assumed, but by Johann Schop; Bach harmonized Schop's melody." Maybe I should change the name!
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by Dow
Right, so Schop composed the slow choral tune, but who composed the jiggy bits? Was it Myra Hess?
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by Dow
Jiggy bits were done by Bach, of course.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by slainte
That's what I thought.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by Dow
It's clearly no coincidence that his initials were 'J. S.' . In case you hadn't noticed, that's 'S. J.' backwards.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by granama
Interesting, Slainte, that, in the German text, 'Jesu(s)' is inflected as if it were Latin. Perhaps it is commonplace in German sacred texts, but I'm neither German nor Christian nor a linguist, so I'd never noticed before.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by granama
I haven't noticed that either, but "Jesu" seems to be used as the vocative of "Jesus" in English too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesu
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by slainte