The typical four-part setting of a chorale, in which the sopranos (and the congregation) sing the melody along with three lower voices, is known as a chorale harmonization. Around the start of the Bach Revival in the 19th century, almost no manuscripts of Bach's music remained in St. Thomas in Leipzig, apart from an incomplete chorale cantata cycle. After Mason's death in 1873, his collection was acquired by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Easter Season Chorales Discussions: Easter Season Chorales, Sacred Songs: William Hoffman wrote (April 11, 2018): As Easter season approached in Leipzig in 1724, Bach began planning for cantatas for the Easter season while he finished composing the St. John Passion. The attribution of a few pieces in the manuscript remains uncertain:[10], From the state of the manuscript Wolff concludes that the five unattributed works were written by composers represented elsewhere in the collection, whose names were omitted by accident. They were first performed privately by Wilhelm Krumbach at Utrecht in January 1985, and publicly by John Ferris and Charles Krigbaum at Yale in March. Iterator¶ class music21.corpus.chorales.Iterator (currentNumber = None, highestNumber = None, numberingSystem = 'riemenschneider', ** kwargs) ¶. Two movements of the BWV 80 version known from the, This page was last edited on 5 January 2021, at 17:34. Bach Chorale No.3 Ach Gott und Herr BWV 255 The modern musician who may not be so familiar with music theory and harmonic analysis will still benefit from this edition of the Bach chorales as each chord is identified above the staff with modern chord symbolism. ", US-NH LM 4708 (Ma21 Y11 A30) "Neumeister Collection", "Authentischer Bach-Elbel: Marginalie zu einem der angeblichen Bach-Choräle der Neumeister-Sammlung", p. 4, Johann Sebastian Bach: Neue Ausgabe sämtliche Werke, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Neumeister Chorales, BWV 1090–1120 (by J. S. Bach), International Music Score Library Project, Toccata and Fugue in D minor ("Dorian"), BWV 538, Fantasia and Fugue in G minor ("Great"), BWV 542, Prelude and Fugue in E minor ("Wedge"), BWV 548, Eight Short Preludes and Fugues, BWV 553–560, Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564, Prelude (Toccata) and Fugue in E major, BWV 566, Fantasia ("Pièce d'Orgue") in G major, BWV 572, Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her", BWV 769, Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother, Concerto transcriptions, BWV 592–596 and 972–987, List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, List of fugal works by Johann Sebastian Bach, List of concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neumeister_Collection&oldid=984627911, Chorale preludes by Johann Sebastian Bach, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2018, Articles with International Music Score Library Project links, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, At least 24 by Johann Michael Bach (1648–1694), cousin and father-in-law of Johann Sebastian, Around 38 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Nine chorales were listed in the 1950 first edition of the. [1] The first of these early hymnals is the Achtliederbuch, containing eight hymns and five melodies. 31 chorales, BWV 1090–1120, were assigned a number in the 1990 second edition of the catalogue. Bach Chorales (numerical) Most of these Musescore, PDF and audio files are derived from the MusicXML files created by Margaret Greentree. see (or create) separate pages for individual works linked in the General Information section below. [14][15] Questionable chronologies and minor differences aside, they followed in Spitta's footsteps praising Bach's so-called "later" chorale cantatas as an epitome of the composer's art. Chorales tend to have simple and singable tunes, because they were originally intended to be sung by the congregation rather than a professional choir. [137] This remains the case even if, as some have suggested, one of the chorales that appears under his name would have been composed by Johann Heinrich Buttstett. [4] The period from Advent 1724 to Epiphany 1725 included Christmas (25 December), New Year (1 January) and Epiphany (6 January):[3], In Leipzig concerted music was not allowed for the second to fourth Sunday of Advent (silent time), so the next cantatas in the cycle are those for Christmas:[3], In 1725 the next occasion was Epiphany, while there was no Sunday between New Year and Epiphany:[3], There were six Sundays between Epiphany and Lent in 1725:[3], The three last Sundays before Ash Wednesday are called Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Estomihi. There are some cantatas that belong to one of both cycles, but not to the other, for instance the chorale cantata for Trinity 1727 replaces the Trinity cantata of the second cycle composed in 1725. All further second cycle cantatas had Christiana Mariana von Ziegler as librettist. Possibly the idea for writing a series of chorale cantatas was inspired by the bicentennial anniversary of the first publications of Lutheran hymnals (1524). [1]. It took about a century after Spitta before Bach's cantata cycles were analysed in scholarly literature, but then Bach's ambitious project to write a chorale cantata for each occasion of the liturgical year was characterized as "the largest musical project that the composer ever undertook". Concerning the chorales composed by Bach, refer to Spitta's Bach, vol. [18] In the New Bach Edition cantatas were grouped by liturgical function (occasion), so also in that edition the chorale cantatas did not come out as a group or cycle. Before we can dive into a study of Bach’s cantatas, we need to learn about an important element of Lutheran sacred music: the chorale. 707–714, Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750, The New Bach Edition – Series I: Cantatas, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Chapter 4 – The Most Ambitious of All Projects: Chorale Cantatas throughout the Year", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chorale_cantata_cycle&oldid=998501423, Articles with dead external links from July 2019, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The chorale cantata apparently retained most, if not all, movements of the. It followed the cantata cycle he had composed from his appointment as Thomaskantor after Trinity in 1723. [1] It has been suggested that the 77 earliest works in the collection may have been copied from a single source, possibly a Bach family album put together in J. S. Bach's early years. In 1725 the feast of Purification (2 February) fell between the first and the second of these Sundays:[3], In Leipzig there was no music during Lent (starting on Ash Wednesday), except for Annunciation (25 March) and the Passion music on Good Friday. Sechs Chorale von verschiedener Art: auf einer Orgel mit 2 Clavieren und Pedal vorzuspielen (lit. Some of these may have been intended for a wedding ceremony and/or as a generic cantata that could be used for any occasion. The works form an encyclopedic collection of large-scale chorale preludes, in a variety of styles harking back to the previous century, that Bach gradually perfected during his career. As such these cantatas have consecutive "K" numbers in the chronological Zwang catalogue for Bach's cantatas published in 1982. [6][7][8] Krumbach was unhappy with the way things turned out. Pachelbel). The table below gives the following information for settings of chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach. [5][7] Wolff acknowledged that he brought his announcement forward when he learned that Krumbach was in the field. BWV 14, and 125 were based on hymns from Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn, also published in 1524. [20][1] The bach-digital.de website, managed by, among others, the Bach Archive, provided the "chorale cantata" qualification for all compositions belonging to this group (all other church cantatas at that website being indicated as "sacred cantata"). Christoph Wolff's 2003 edition Orgelchoräle der Neumeister-Sammlung (Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection), Score and Critical Commentary, Volume 9 of Series IV: Organ Works of the New Bach Edition (Neue Bach-Ausgabe, NBA), includes 36 chorales (BWV 714, 719, 737, 742, 957 and 1090–1120). In 1878 Alfred Dörffel described this incomplete cantata cycle in the introduction of the thematic catalogue for the first 120 cantatas published by the Bach Gesellschaft. [146] The 2018 last two volumes of Breitkopf & Härtel (B&H)'s new Urtext edition of Bach's organ works included them in alphabetical order, that is, together with other chorale preludes transmitted independently of the collections collated by the composer. Wikipedia article bach-chorales.com: Extra Information Publication history Publication timeline to 1843: Navigation etc. [136] Of the twenty-five pieces attributed to him in the manuscript, seven were known but had been credited to other composers and eighteen were entirely new, making this the largest single trove of his work. p. 108, 114, 287, etc. Even a merging of both cycles into one, with some occasions having two cantatas, which hardly can be seen as an intention of the composer, would still be missing a few cantatas (e.g. Two chorales of the first edition of the BWV catalogue are no longer generally associated with J. S. Bach: The other thirty-eight works are most often attributed to J. S. 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