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Cantata CX.: Unser Mund sei voll Lachens. Christmas Day 2 ( c. or after 1734) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts [1917]

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Bach’s Chorals. Part I: 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 2.

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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Cantata CX.

Unser Mund sei voll Lachens. Christmas Day2 (c. or after 1734)

The words and melody of the concluding Choral are from Caspar Fuger’s Christmas Hymn, “Wir Christenleut’ ” (see Cantata 40).

The words are the fifth stanza of Fuger’s Hymn:

  • Alleluja!
  • Gelobt sei Gott3 !
  • Singen wir All’ aus unsers Herzens Grunde;
  • Denn Gott hat heut’
  • Gemacht solch’ Freud’,
  • Der wir vergessen soll’n zu keiner Stunde.

  • B.G. xxiii. 324.

Form. Simple (Tromba, 2 Fl., 2 Ob., Oboe da caccia, Strings, Organ, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 380.

[2 ] See Spitta (iii. 78) on this Cantata. It is partly constructed out of the Overture of an Orchestral Suite (D major). See Cantatas 49, 146, 169, 174, 188 for other instances of the same process.

[3 ] 1592 Alleluia. Bach’s line follows Martin Fritzsch’s Dresden Gesangbuch of 1593.