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Cantata CXX.: Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille. For the Inauguration of the Town Council, Leipzig ( c. 1730 1 ) - 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 CXX.

Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille. For the Inauguration of the Town Council, Leipzig (c. 17301 )

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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” (see Cantata 16). The melody printed above is that portion of the Plainsong to which the clauses Bach uses here were sung.

The words of the Choral are clauses xx-xxiii of the “Te Deum”:

  • Nun hilf uns, Herr, den Dienern dein,
  • Die mit dein’m Blut1 erlöset sein.
  • Lass’ uns im Himmel haben Theil
  • Mit den Heil’gen im ew’gen Heil.
  • Hilf deinem Volk, Herr Jesu Christ,
  • Und segne, was2 dein Erbtheil ist,
  • Wart’ und pfleg’ ihr’r zu aller Zeit,
  • Und heb’ sie hoch in Ewigkeit.
  • B.G. xxiv. 284.

Form. Simple (Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 135.

[1 ] The Cantata probably had served for the celebration of the Augsburg Confession in Leipzig, June 26, 1730 (Spitta, ii. 469).

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