Mvt 8: Das Wort sie sollen lassen stahn - Bach

Melody

• Most resembles Luther’s original hymn tune

• Conjunct and diatonic, occasional small leaps

Harmony

• Diatonic and functional

• Frequent perfect cadences - confirm the modulation to a new key

• B10 imperfect cadence - the only in these three mvts

• Most chords are in root position or first inversion, although second inversions are used

Rhythm/Metre/Tempo

• 4/4

• Begins with an anacrusis

• Pauses at the end of each phrase - typical of chorales, halts the tempo

• Mostly crotchets

Texture

• Homophonic

• instruments double vocal parts

Tonality

• D major

• Briefly modulates to A major twice

• Perfect cadence to return to D major after it briefly modulates to G major

Instrumentation

• Vocals, SATB

• (If u want, the following instruments double up

• 2 Oboe - one with sop, other with alto

• Violin I and II - one with sop, other with alto

• Viola - with tenor

• Taille (alto oboe) - with tenor

• Organ (Continuo)

Dynamics/Articulation

• None, it’s a Bach cantata what did we expect.

• Swelling in phrases I assume

Structure

• Bars 1-4 2 2-bar phrases repeated

• Bars 5-12 This section consists of five phrases. Starts in D major, although

modulating to the dominant key, A major, in both bars 5 and 8, although

• after the perfect cadence swiftly returns to the tonic.

• In bar 9 the music

moves through G major in order to reach the relative minor key of E

minor in bar 10.