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Cantata CXCII.: Nun danket alle Gott ( c. 1732 2 ) - 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 CXCII.

Nun danket alle Gott (c. 17322 )

A Choral Cantata, on Martin Rinkart’s Hymn, “Nun danket alle Gott” (see Cantata 79). The melody of the opening and concluding movements is Johann Crüger’s setting of the Hymn (see Cantata 79).

(a)

The words of the opening movement are the first stanza of Rinkart’s Hymn:

  • Nun danket alle Gott
  • Mit Herzen, Mund und Handen,
  • Der grosse Dinge thut
  • An uns und allen Enden;
  • Der uns von Mutterleib
  • Und Kindesbeinen an
  • Unzählig viel zu gut
  • Und noch jetzund gethan.
  • B.G. xli. 67.

Form. Choral Fantasia (2 Fl., 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo).

(b)

The words of the concluding Choral are the third stanza of Rinkart’s Hymn:

  • Lob, Ehr’ und Preis sei Gott,
  • Dem Vater und dem Sohne
  • Und Dem, der Beiden gleich,
  • In hohen1 Himmelsthrone.
  • Dem dreieinigen2 Gott,
  • Als der3 ursprunglich war,
  • Und ist und bleiben wird
  • Jetzund und immerdar.
  • B.G. xli. 88.

Form. Choral Fantasia (2 Fl., 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo).

[2 ] The occasion for which the Cantata was composed is not stated. It is incomplete; the vocal Tenor part is wanting throughout. Every movement is a stanza of the Hymn.

[1 ] 1648 hochsten.

[2 ] 1648 dreymahl Einem.

[3 ] 1648 er.