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THE MOTETTS - 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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For the help of students and others the author, on the first occurrence of every Choral melody, states where Bach uses it elsewhere in his concerted Church music and Organ works1 . Thus, Bach’s treatment of a particular tune can be studied exhaustively.

THE MOTETTS

The only original mss. extant are the following1 :

Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf. No. 2. B s.

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied. No. 1. B s.

Cambridge:

printed by j. b. peace, m.a.,

at the university press

[1 ] The references throughout are to Novello’s Edition of Bach’s Organ Works, Books xv-xix.

[1 ] “Lobet den Herrn,” No. 6, was published in 1821 “nach J. S. Bach’s Original-handschrift.” The other five Motetts were published in 1803.