Chorale

In addition, Bach was a virtuoso on the organ. He also served as an organ consultant, and composer of organ works, like toccatas, chorale preludes, and fugues. He had a reputation for having great creativity, and he was able to integrate many national styles into his works. Many of his works are said to have North German influences that were taught to Bach by Georg Bröhm. Bach also

modesty and the lack of interest from the people around him, Bach’s creative works existed without influencing the world around him for many years (Herz 2). The only place that appreciated his works was the Lutheran church. Bach’s chorales and cantatas held great admiration in the religious world. A devout Lutheran, Bach remained true to the past musical heritage of his church. For him, the old Lutheran ways were perfect and sacred. This notion comes through in his perfectly arranged

sing from jesu, meine freude by J.S. BACH. It is Bach’s six original motets, was written in 1723 for the funeral of Johanna Maria Käsin, the wife of Leipzig’s postmaster. The singers present two movements in their sound in chorale melody. They sing this motet in the opening chorale and dynamic second movement. The harmony of this piece is they use of furious imitation. They try to characterize the text into their music. It sounds interesting and

you don’t actually know diverse the world is until you immerse yourself into other countries and cities. When I first realised how diverse the world is I was on my way to Africa. In 2010 I took a trip to South Africa with the Colorado Children's Chorale. We

Over the weekend I attended my friends choir concert and listened to them sing the songs of the 60’s. The songs they sang where “The Times Are A-Changing by Bob Dylan, If I Had a Hammer, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything Is a Season), We Shall Overcome by Pete Seeger; Oh Happy Day by Mark Hayes, Good Vibrations, God Only Knows by Ed Lojeski; Consider Yourself (from “Oliver”) by Lionel Bart, Eleanor Rigby by Roger Emerson, Hey Jude by John Lennon, The Sound of Silence

Unity in Bach's Cantata No.78 According to Rowell, "Musical composition became much longer, and composer were forced to evolve new means of maintaining unity and continuity over long time spans" during the Baroque period. Therefore, the texture of music became very important. When I look at the musical texutre of the Cantata No. 78 by J. S. Bach, I realized that this piece was unified very well within a movement and as a whole piece by many techniques. Some of those techniques were found in

In the 17th century, the conflict between Catholic churches and Protestant churches threw Europe into a great turmoil (Buelow 9). Half of Europe was plagued by the seemingly endless wars of religion, and countries such as Italy and Germany broke into numerous political fragments (Buelow 9). After the Thirty Years’ War, there existed more than 300 principalities in Germany (Vaubel 280); Italy also split into many independent or semi-independent states (Buelow 9). During this religious upheaval in

Bach’s composition of music while he was in the church was the genres that were most used in a Lutheran church service, “…Bach focused on the genres used in the Lutheran services: chorale settings…toccatas, fantasias, preludes, and fugues…”( Burkholder 438). As seems to be the usual, Bach has known stuff from a very young age, and that’s still the case when it comes to the organ. Bach, from a young age, had a grasp on a pretty large

his cousin Maria Barbara Bach at Dornheim on October 17. At Muhlhausen things seem, for a time, to have gone more smoothly. He produced several church cantatas at this time; all of these works are cast in a conservative mold, based on biblical and chorale texts and displaying no influence of the “modern” Italian operatic forms that were to appear in Bach's later cantatas. The famous organ Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, written in the rhapsodic northern style, and the Prelude and Fugue in D Major may

cantatas. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote most cantatas for the Lutheran church. The texts of Bach’s cantatas included biblical passages, a chorale text, and poetic interpretation. Bach explored a variety of instrumental and vocal elements in his cantatas: “Bach’s cantatas embody many different forms and traditions, including motet-like movements for chorus, chorale harmonization, virtuosic solos and duets, with additional solo