Talk:Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

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Noting this article on the Classical Music Project's "needs cleanup" list, I started the ball rolling, but not much more. In considerably tightening and organizing the text and correcting a blooper or so, I did my best with all those pop culture references. They are definitely outside my area of expertise, such as it is, however; perhaps an editor more versed in such things should carefully review my work with them to ensure that I didn't go off the rails. In general, the article strikes me as too oriented toward "J,JoMD in pop songs and movies" and skimpy on the work as a piece of classical music—for instance, we have (evidently debatable) reference to J,J's adaptation in a Byrds rock song but none to Joshua Rifkin's one-to-a-part recording, or to any other classical recording for that matter.

Drhoehl 22:15, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

I'm English, have sung this composition in English and German, and have never heard the opening syllable sung to 'J'. It's always 'Ieusu, Joy of Man's Desiring'. The case made for the pronunciation 'Jaysu' has no citations, and the case from alliteration is terribly weak. I'm not removing the section, because I don't think someone's just made all that up, but think consideration's necessary.

82.40.163.5 (talk) 08:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] music sample is terrible

I know there are always issues with copyright for this sort of thing, but that audio sample is absolutely terrible. Surely there must be a better performance somewhere? Timrb (talk) 00:55, 27 May 2008 (UTC)