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Cantata CLXVII.: Ihr Menschen, ruhmet Gottes Liebe 1 . Feast of St John Baptist ( c. 1725) - 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 CLXVII.

Ihr Menschen, ruhmet Gottes Liebe1 . Feast of St John Baptist (c. 1725)

The melody of the concluding Choral is Johann Kugelmann’s (?) “Nun lob’, mein’ Seel’, den Herren” (see Cantata 17).

The words of the Choral are the fifth stanza of Johann Graumann’s Hymn, “Nun lob’, mein’ Seel’, den Herren” (see Cantata 29):

  • * Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren
  • Gott Vater, Sohn, heiliger Geist.
  • Der woll’ in uns vermehren,
  • Was er uns aus Genad’ verheisst.
  • Dass wir ihm fest vertrauen,
  • Ganzlich verlassen auf ihn,
  • Von Herzen auf ihn bauen;
  • Dass unser Herz, Muth und Sinn
  • Ihm festiglich anhangen:
  • Darauf singen wir zur Stund’.
  • Amen, wir werden’s erlangen,
  • Gläub’n wir aus Herzens Grund.

  • B.G. xxxiii. 140.

Form. Extended (Clarino, Oboe, Strings, Continuo).

[1 ] An English version of the Cantata “Ye mortals, extol the love of the Father,” is published by Breitkopf & Haertel.