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Cantata CXIX.: Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn 1 . For the Inauguration of the Town Council, Leipzig (1723) - 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 CXIX.

Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn1 . For the Inauguration of the Town Council, Leipzig (1723)

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Melody:Herr Gott dich loben wir

Anon. 1535

The words and melody of the concluding Choral of the Cantata are from Luther’s translation of the “Te Deum,” “Herr Gott dich loben wir” (see Cantata 16). The melody printed above is that portion of the Plainsong to which the clauses Bach uses here were sung. Bach’s version of the “Amen” is not found in the 1535 text.

The words of the Choral are the twenty-second and twenty-third clauses of the “Te Deum”:

  • Hilf deinem Volk, Herr Jesu Christ,
  • Und segne das dein Erbtheil ist,
  • Wart’ und pfleg’ ihr’r zu aller Zeit,
  • Und heb’ sie hoch in Ewigkeit.
  • B.G. xxiv. 246.

Form. Simple. Choralgesange, No. 1342 .

[1 ] An English version of the Cantata, “Praise thou the Lord, Jerusalem,” is published by Novello & Co.

[2 ] The orchestration is not stated in the Score. The work was the first of Bach’s Rathswahl Cantatas at Leipzig.