In the last issue of Banjo Sessions™ I demonstrated the right hand melody of Minuet #7 in G. It’s in a friendly key, pretty simple, and is one of Bach’s well-known pieces. He originally wrote it for his second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcke. The Minuet was in a series known as Clavier-Büchlein vor Anna Magdalena Bach, or Anna Magdalena’s Notebooks. Her notebooks are just a series of simple songs, like the minuet, for clavier. This arrangement is the left hand melody part. Check out the right hand part in the October 2008 Banjo Sessions™.  It makes a great duet!

Minuet #7 in G II Video
View the Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/guxA6UkE-eo

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Ian Nathaniel Django Jones has been playing violin since the age of 10. Now 18 his interests include Irish tenor banjo, mandolin, octave mandolin, five-string banjo. Born and raised in the area around Dallas, Texas, he has grown up in the presence of bluegrass, oldtime, Irish, rock, Texas fiddle, and country music. He likes bluegrass, but baroque/late-baroque style of music is what he prefers. Ian is the first chair violinist with the Richardson High School orchestra plays gigs around Dallas.
Watashi no namae wa Jones Ian-kun desu. Junana sai desu. Ju sai yori baiorin o hikararemasu. Richardson koukou de ni-nensei desu. Dallas ni sundeimasu. Bluegrass yori, Baroquena sukidesu. Vivaldi to Bach no ongaku sukidesu.

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