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No. 17.: Within yon gloomy manger ( Schaut hin! dort liegt ) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 1 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the “Passions” and Oratorios [1915]

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Bach’s Chorals. Part I: The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the “Passions” and Oratorios, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 1.

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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No. 17.

Within yon gloomy manger (Schaut hin! dort liegt)

For the melody, “Vom Himmel hoch,” see No. 9 supra.

The words of the Choral are the eighth stanza of Paul Gerhardt’s (see the “St Matthew Passion,” No. 16) Christmas Hymn, “Schaut! schaut! was ist fur Wunder dar?” It was first published in the fifth “Dozen” of Johann G Ebeling’s (see No. 33 infra) edition of Gerhardt’s Geistliche Andachten, Berlin, 1667:

  • Schaut hin! dort liegt im finstern Stall,
  • Dess’ Herrschaft gehet überall
  • Da Speise vormals sucht’ ein Rind,
  • Da ruhet jetzt der Jungfrau’n Kind.
  • B.G. v (2) 66.

A translation of the Hymn is noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 411.

Form. Simple (2 Fl., 2 Ob. d’amore, 2 Ob. da caccia, Strings, Organ, and Continuo).