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Cantata CLXXXVI.: Argre dich, O Seele, nicht. Seventh Sunday after Trinity (1723) 3 - 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 CLXXXVI.

Argre dich, O Seele, nicht. Seventh Sunday after Trinity (1723)3

The words and melody of the last movement of Part I of the Cantata are Paul Speratus’ Hymn, “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her” (see Cantata 9).

The words are the twelfth stanza of the Hymn:

  • Ob sich’s anliess’, als wollt’ er nicht,
  • Lass dich es nicht erschrecken;
  • Denn wo er ist am besten mit,
  • Da will er’s nicht entdecken.
  • Sein Wort lass dir1 gewisser sein,
  • Und ob dein Herz2 sprach’ lauter Nein,
  • So lass dir doch3 nicht grauen.

  • B.G. xxxvii. 136.

Form. Extended (2 Ob., Strings, Continuo)4 .

[3 ] See Wustmann, p. 287.

[1 ] 1524 das las dir.

[2 ] 1524 fleisch.

[3 ] 1524 doch dir.

[4 ] On the analogy of Cantatas 75 and 76 Spitta (ii. 360) holds that the Choral was repeated at the close of Part II of the Cantata. Schweitzer (ii. 152) calls the movement “almost” a Choral Fantasia.