Bach Cantata

Mvt 1: Chorus (1)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6z9zxeSJ4&index=4&list=PLDDC4F8807C2C46E4
• - Form: Ritornello
• - Key: Gminor
• - Time: 3/4
• - Voice: SATB
• - Instrum: All
• - Texture: Poly
• - Special features: Descending chromatic theme, sequences, trills, imitation/canon, grief motif, syncopation, joy motif, dialogue, tierce di picardi

Mvt 1: Chorus (2)

• Orchestral ritornello
• - grief motif on flute, oboe, and violin in syncopation

Mvt. 2: Aria Duet

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbRAWWC0P-A&list=PLDDC4F8807C2C46E4&index=5
• - Form: ABA, ternary Da Capo (aria repeats final 50 bars on reaching the end), with an instrumental ritornello
• - Key: Bb major
• - Time: 4/4
• - Voice: Soprano and alto
• - Instrum: Continuo (organ, cello, DB)
• - Texture: Polyphonic
• - Special features: instrum ritornello, voices in canon, figured bass, melisma, sequences, word painting, dialogue, parallel 3rds
• A: Ritornello
• - joyful mood in contrast to mvt 1
• - continuos quaver movement in cello and organ and crotchet movement in DB
• A: Voices
• - Voices in canon
• - word painting on "eilen(hurry)" = sequences and melisma
• - sequences and dialogue on "jesu" and "meister"
• - B43 is a repeat of the opening ritornello
• B
• - minor tonality, longer notes
• - Word painting on "ach hore" in parallel 3rds
• - melisma on "freulich (joyful)"
• - ends on perfect cadence and Aria returns to B1 and repeats opening 50 bars

Mvt 3: Tenor Recit (Secco)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7EFYVwoR9s&index=6&list=PLDDC4F8807C2C46E4
• - Form: none
• - Key: minor
• - Time: common
• - Voice: Tenor
• - Instrum: Continuo (cello and organ)
• - Special features: syllabic word setting, repeated notes, wide leaps, cadence at end of each phrase, appoggiaturas, mordent, figured bass
• - sparse accomp and figured bass
• - Atonal with common time
• - syllabic word setting with very little melisma
• - Appoggiatura = an embellishing note one step below/above the note it precedes
• - more accomp from bar 20 and more ornamentation like a mordent (trill)
• - melisma at the end on "erzurnet"

Mvt 4: Tenor Aria

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-lfw-G0Rxw&index=7&list=PLDDC4F8807C2C46E4
• - Form: ABB1 Dal Segno
• - Key: Gmin
• - Time: 6/8
• - Voice: Tenor
• - Instrum: Flute and Continuo (cello and organ)
• - Texture: Poly/homo
• - Special features: appoggiatura, 8va leaps, sequences, flute plays a counter melody, change in tonality, upwards leaps, sustained notes, changes from Bb maj to a minor tonality
• A: Opening ritornello
• - appoggi in B1 and 8va leaps in B2 and syncopation
• - B11 rising semiquaver scale and ends with a perfect cadence
• A: Voices
• - Poly = flute counter melody and sequence in bars 21 - 24
• - preformed appoggi on "frei" and ends with 4B ritornello
• B
• - sequences on flute
• - 8va leaps and melisma on "streite (fight)" and leaps on "beherzt(brave)"
• - ends with perfect cadence, maj - min
• B1
• - 8va leaps on "streite" and sequences
• - held note on "steht (stand)" and leaps on "beherzt"
• - ends with a perfect cadence and Dal Segno (go back to B1 and play opening ritornello)

Mvt 5: Bass Recit (accompagnato)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDt8PNiwOzw&list=PLDDC4F8807C2C46E4&index=8
• - Form: Non
• - Key: Eb major
• - Time: 4/4
• - Voice: Bass
• - Instrum: Violins, viola, continuo (cello + organ)
• - Texture: Homo
• - Special features: word painting, changes in accompaniment, texture, mood, tonality, and tempo, appoggiaturas and trills, melisma, starts syllabic and ends arioso, figured bass, step mvt in vocal line
• - tempo changes from vivace to adagio and from lento to andante
• - dramatic change to vivace which then changes to a slower tempo with sustained notes
• - there is chromatic movement in the continuo
• - it starts with a syllabic word setting but changes and ends with a more ornamented style(arioso)
• - there are leaps in the vocal line
• - word painting on the word "grab" (grave), the melody goes down
• - trills in the vocal line

Mvt 6: Bass aria

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ8jXi9_DFw&index=9&list=PLDDC4F8807C2C46E4
• - Form: ABA1, dal segno
• - Key: C minor
• - Time: 4/4
• - Voice: Bass
• - Instrum: Oboe, violins, viola, continuo (cello + organ)
• - Texture: Homo/poly
• - Special features: Obligato, trills, instrum rit, sequences, scale mvt, bass melody rhythmically similar to ritornello, melisma, change in tonality, word painting, ends with a cadenza
• Ritornello theme
• - trills and is repeated throughout the mvt
• - Obligato = an oboe solo and it is an independent solo line. It features sequences, scale mvt, and links with the ritornello
• A
• - Bass melody is rhythmically similar to the ritornello
• - there is the obligato and 5b of ritornello
• - there is melisma in the bass voice and the tonality changes to minor
• - 7b of ritornello and the section ends with a perfect cadence
• B
• - Bass voice sings variation of the opening melody and features sequences, and word painting on a held note "ewigkeit" (eternity
• A1
• - similar melody to A, same text as B
• - word painting on held note "ewigkeit"
• - section ends with a cadenza like passage for bass voice on "ravben"
• - Dal segno, repeat opening rit

Mvt 7: Chorale

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxA1gv3Ac94&list=PLDDC4F8807C2C46E4&index=10
• - Form: AABC
• - Key: Gmin
• - Time: 4/4
• - Voice: SATB
• - Instrum: Horn, flute, oboe, violins, viola, cello, organ
• - Texture: Homo
• - Special features: repeated notes, 16b long, cadence at the end of every two bars, key change from F - Bb major, ends on Gmajor chord which is a tierce di picardi (where the third note of the chord is raised a semitone