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Advent songs (German: Adventslieder) are songs and hymns intended for Advent, the four weeks of preparation for Christmas. Topics of the time of expectation are the hope for a Messiah , prophecies, and the symbolism of light, among others.
Bach structured the cantata in six movements, beginning with chorale fantasia, followed by a series of alternating recitatives and arias and concluded by a chorale. [3] He scored it for three vocal soloists (soprano (S), tenor (T) and bass (B)), and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of violins (Vl), two violas (Va), and basso continuo (Bc), including cello (Vc) and bassoon (Fg). [7]
As part of the "second phase" of post-Conciliar Catholic folk music, the Dameans' songs reflected attention to liturgical and Biblical texts, and several were represented in the original Glory and Praise hymnals, Volume 2 of 1979 and Volume 3, 1981. [11] Their most popular songs included Look Beyond [12] and All That We Have.
" Wir sagen euch an den lieben Advent" (We announce the dear Advent to you) is an Advent song with German text by Maria Ferschl written in 1954, and a melody by Heinrich Rohr. The song is part of the German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch , the Catholic Gotteslob and many songbooks.
The actual origin of the song is unclear. Occasionally this song is dated in the 16th century, which at least may not be proved. [1] However, in the Andernach Hymnal of 1608 a song "Jesus and his mother tender" was printed with the note "to the tune of Maria went through this forest", in which sometimes a nucleus of this Advent song is ...
He was a Catholic theologian who was influential in the first common Catholic hymnal in German, Gotteslob of 1975. [2] The song appeared in the 2013 edition as GL 221, in the section for Advent. [1] [3] In the Bavarian edition of the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch, it is EG 540. [2] It is part of several songbooks. [4]
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Savior of the Nations, Come), [1] is a cantata for soloists, a choir and instruments by Georg Böhm for the first Sunday of Advent, the Sunday that begins the liturgical year. Böhm was an organist at St. Johannis, Lüneburg, from 1698.
Church music was allowed in Leipzig only on the first Sunday of Advent. Gardiner observed about all three extant cantatas for this occasion, also Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, and Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36, which all deal with Luther's hymn, that they "display a sense of excitement at the onset of the Advent season. This can ...