Zion hört die Wächter singen (Cantata 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 140) for Tenor Solo
by Johann Sebastian Bach
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Large Ensemble Cello,Harpsichord,High Voice,Organ,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download

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By Johann Sebastian Bach. By Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Flavio Regis Cunha. Baroque,Christian,Christmas,Contest,Festival,Sacred. Score and parts. 20 pages. Flavio Regis Cunha #5317395. Published by Flavio Regis Cunha (A0.597313).

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme ('Awake, calls the voice to us'), BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Wake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731.

Bach performed the cantata only once, in Leipzig's main church Nikolaikirche on 25 November 1731. According to Wolff, Bach performed it only this one time, although the 27th Sunday after Trinity occurred one more time during his tenure in Leipzig, in 1742. Bach used the central movement as the basis for the first of his Schübler Chorales, BWV 645.

As the text and its eschatological themes are also associated with Advent, the cantata is commonly performed during that season.
The fourth movement, "Zion hört die Wächter singen" (Zion hears the watchmen singing), is based on the second verse of the chorale. It is written in the style of a chorale prelude, with the phrases of the chorale, sung as a cantus firmus by the tenors (or by the tenor soloist), entering intermittently against a famously lyrical melody played in unison by the violins (without the violino piccolo) and the viola, accompanied by the basso continuo.

Bach later transcribed this movement for organ (BWV 645), and it was subsequently published along with five other transcriptions Bach made of his cantata movements as the Schübler Chorales.

New edition with Ornaments indicated and continuo realized.

Advanced Intermediate.

Format: Concert, 9 x 12 inches.

20 pages.

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