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.