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IV.: Lobt ihn mit Herz und Munde 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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IV.

Lobt ihn mit Herz und Munde1

The words and melody of the opening Choral are Ludwig Helmbold’s Hymn, “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen” (see Cantatas 11 and 73).

The words are the fifth stanza of the Hymn:

  • Lobt ihn mit Herz und Munde,
  • Welch’s er uns beides schenkt.
  • Das ist ein’ sel’ge Stunde,
  • Darin man sein gedenkt;
  • Sonst verdirbt alle Zeit,
  • Die wir zubring’n auf Erden:
  • Wir sollen2 selig werden
  • Und bleib’n in Ewigkeit.
  • B.G. xli. 259.

Form. Simple3 . Choralgesange, No. 327.

THE MOTETTS

[1 ] The occasion for which the Cantata was composed is not stated in the Score.

[2 ] 1569 Sollen wir.

[3 ] The orchestration is not stated in the Score.