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Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme




BWV 140 is based on the for the 27th Sunday after Trinity .The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod , '' Lutheran Service Book '' ( Concordia Publishing House , 2006), xxi. ISBN 0-7586-1217-6 Because this Sunday only occurred in the church year when Easter was very early, the cantata was rarely performed.According to Wolff (p. 280), the cantata was only performed once ( November 25 , 1731 ) during Bach's tenure at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig , though the 27th Sunday after Trinity may have occurred again in Bach's lifetime. The infrequency of the occasion for which it was composed makes it one of the few cantatas whose date of composition is definitively known. In the modern three-year Lutheran lectionary, however, the reading is scheduled for Proper 27 in the first year of the three-year cycle of lessons, corresponding to the 26th Sunday after Pentecost (or the 25th Sunday after Trinity).''Lutheran Service Book'', xv. Thus, the hymn or the cantata are commonly performed in churches on that Sunday.


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  • I. Chorus: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Wake up, the voice calls to us)

  • II. Recitative : Er kommt (He comes)

  • III. Aria (duet): Wann kommst du, mein Heil? (When will you come, my salvation?)

  • IV. Chorale: Zion hört die Wächter singen ( Zion hears the watchmen singing)

  • V. Recitative: So geh herein zu mir (So come in with me)

  • VI. Aria (duet): Mein Freund ist mein! (My friend is mine!)

  • VII. Chorale: Gloria sei dir gesungen (May "Gloria" be sung to you)



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BWV 140 is a chorale cantata, meaning that its primary melody and text are drawn from a Lutheran chorale. In this case, the chorale is ''Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme''. The first movement is a , 2001), 547. ISBN 0-393-97690-4 The final movement, as with many of Bach's cantatas, is based on the final verse of the chorale and is a four-part harmonization of the chorale melody.


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