David,

This is one of my all time favourite melodies of Bach's. It's also the the very first piece of music I remember hearing in 9/8.

In Bach's day, this was regarded as 'perfect time' because it's three lots of three and, from a religious perspective, three is an important number. They used to use a circle in the time signature to indicate that it was perfect time. If a song wasn't perfect time, they used to use a half circle. Over the years, this half circle mutated into a 'C' and became called 'common time'.

I digress, though... back to Bach and you... you've done this well. I can only imagine the challenges of playing it on guitar.

Merry Christmas!
Noel

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