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The shepherds are introduced by an instrumental Pastorale, the Pifa, which takes its name from the shepherd-bagpipers, or pifferai, who played in the streets of Rome at Christmas time. [6] [9] The music in C major and swinging 12/8 time gently rises and falls like a cradle song (i.e. lullaby).
Ev’ry valley shall be exalted: Air T: Isaiah 40:4: 4: And the glory, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed: Chorus: Isaiah 40:5: Scene 2: 5: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His temple: Acc. B: Haggai 2:6–7 Malachi 3:1: Haggai, splendor of the temple Malachi, the coming messenger: 6: But ...
A fashion for large-scale performances began in 1784, in a series of commemorative concerts of Handel's music given in Westminster Abbey under the patronage of King George III. A plaque on the Abbey wall records that "The Band consisting of DXXV [525] vocal & instrumental performers was conducted by Joah Bates Esqr."
He had started in 1713 to also compose sacred music on English texts, such as the Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate. He set many oratorios on English libretti. In Messiah he used practically the same musical means as for those works, namely a structure based on chorus and solo singing. Only a few movements are a duet or a combination of solo and ...
John Eliot Gardiner described it as Bach's "first-known attempt at painting narrative in music". [4] Christ lag in Todes Banden is a chorale cantata, a style in which both text and music are based on a hymn. In this instance, the source was Martin Luther's hymn of the same name, the main hymn for Easter in the Lutheran church. The composition ...
The music of the chorale movements is now best known for the piano transcription by Dame Myra Hess of Hugh P. Allen's choral version of Bach's arrangement, and is notable under the title Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, [28] an inexact translation that transforms the original affirmation ("Jesus remains my joy") into a wish.
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ (Praise be to You, Jesus Christ), [1] BWV 91, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote the Christmas cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for Christmas Day and first performed it on 25 December. It is based on the hymn " Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ" by Martin Luther which was 200 years old when Bach wrote the ...
This theme, representing God, the Son, the "kind Lord", has two bar phrases of staccato three-part chords in the galant style, with echo responses marked piano. This is followed by a more ornate syncopated version which is not further developed during the prelude: Third theme: the Holy Ghost