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Chris -- 2025-05-10
It would make a nice title for a work of music, just not that work of music. About 50 ghits:
Songsearch CD Store – Titles beginning with W
Well Tempered Cavalier 1-12 · Well Tempered Cavalier 1-24 · Well Tempered Cavalier 13-24 …
www.songsearch.com/search/domestic/list … title/w/94
Classical Guitar Rankings
... 3 Bach; Cello Suites Bach; Fugue from Violin Sonata No 1 Bach; Gavotte en Rondeau(4th Lute Suite) Bach; Prelude #12 Well Tempered Cavalier …
www.cecea.org/cg/appreciated.htm
The third graders (ESL 3-B) will sing (to the tune of Bach’s “Well Tempered
Cavalier”) “Ave Maria”... in Latin,...
apocalypse.rootb33r.com/fall-winter03.html
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92 hits for “Well Tampered Clavier.” No well tampered cavaliers, alas.
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There’s a number for “well tempered clavicle” – most of them jokes but at least two legit mistakes.
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