Most of Johann Sebastian Bach's extant church music in Latin—settings of (parts of) the Mass ordinary and of the Magnificat canticle—dates from his Leipzig...
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based on work by Telemann. Bach wrote hundreds of four-part harmonisations of Lutheran chorales. Bach's church music in Latin includes the Magnificat, four...
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however most likely composed by Bach. See #BWV Chapter 3 in the table above Bach's involvement with Latin church music, as composer, arranger or copyist...
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Most of Bach's church cantatas date from his first years as Thomaskantor and director of church music in Leipzig, a position which he took up in 1723. Working...
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outside Bach's usual routine for liturgical music. Bach was not the first to include mixed German/Latin Christmas interpolations in a Magnificat sung in Latin:...
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provided a life pension for Bach's widow. He was buried in the graveyard of St. Pancras Old Church, London. The works of J. C. Bach are given 'W' numbers,...
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Missa brevis (disambiguation) (redirect from Missa brevis (Bach))
(Palestrina), a 1570 work by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Bach's church music in Latin#Separate movements, copies, and arrangements List of masses by...
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Bach composed both church cantatas, most of them for specific occasions of the liturgical year of the Lutheran Church, and secular cantatas. Bach's earliest...
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Church music is Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing...
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Sebastian Bach composed cantatas for both secular and sacred use. His church cantatas are cantatas which he composed for use in the Lutheran church, mainly...
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Bach's Missa of 1733, BWV 232 I (early version), is a Kyrie–Gloria Mass in B minor, composed in 1733 by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is an extended missa...
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In Christian music, a Passion is a setting of the Passion of Christ. Liturgically, most Passions were intended to be performed as part of church services...
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of Bach's chamber music compositions]. In Schulze, Hans-Joachim; Wolff, Christoph (eds.). Bach-Jahrbuch 1979 [Bach Yearbook 1979]. Bach-Jahrbuch (in German)...
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War, Unlike Bach's other church cantatas, the words are not in German, taken from the Bible, a chorale or contemporary poetry, but in Latin, taken from...
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SATB (category Choral music)
as in Penderecki's Polish Requiem. or SSATB, with divided sopranos, which is a typical scoring in English church music.: 322 A listing for Bach's Mass...
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today. Bach's organ preludes are quite diverse, drawing on both southern and northern German influences. Most of Bach's preludes were written in the theme...
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by C.F. Peters in 1997, uses two copies of the 1748–50 manuscript made before C.P.E. Bach's adulterations to try to reconstruct Bach's original readings...
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In music, a dictum (Latin 'something that has been said'; plural dicta) is a type of libretto for a church cantata consisting of quotes from sacred scripture...
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Kyrie–Gloria masses, BWV 233–236 (redirect from Missa in G minor, BWV 235)
Steinitz. "Bach's Latin Church Music". London Bach Society. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2010. (in German) Schmieder...
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Clavier-Übung III (redirect from Bach's duets)
compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–36 and published in 1739. It is considered Bach's most significant and extensive work for...
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St John Passion (redirect from St John Passion (Bach))
Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was...
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under Bach's supervision: many of these works, such as cantatas and Passions, include four-part chorales Three Wedding Chorales autograph Bach's autograph...
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associated with Neumeister that Bach started to use for church cantatas in 1714. Wolff points out the relation of Bach's early cantatas to works by Dieterich...
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Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. It is based on Albert Emil Brachvogel's novel Friedemann Bach. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is shown as a...
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Missa Providentiae (redirect from Sanctus in D minor, BWV 239)
[Bach's editing of works by other composers: observations regarding the musical manuscripts from his library, with a particular focus on Latin church music]...
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Christmas Oratorio (redirect from Christmas Oratorio (Bach))
Christmas period, was not uncommon in Bach's day: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, whose church music was not unknown to Bach and Leipzig churchgoers, had composed...
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Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
of Bach's liturgical designation, the performance can be precisely dated to 2 December 1714. As Thomaskantor, director of music of the main churches of...
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Clavichord (section Modern music)
E. Bach's most preferred instrument.[page needed] C. P. E. Bach also used the fortepiano in his compositions, but he was much more interested in the...
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Chorale cantata cycle (redirect from Bach's chorale cantata cycle)
Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata cycle is the year-cycle of church cantatas he started composing in Leipzig from the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724. It...
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is a mainstay of the Christmas Nine Lessons and Carols repertoire. J. S. Bach's chorale prelude based on the tune (BWV 729) is also a traditional postlude...
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