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Singing The Word: The Cantatas of J S Bach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Geoffrey Turner
Geoffrey Turner*
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New Blackfriars , Volume 87 , Issue 1008 , March 2006 , pp. 144 - 154
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© The Author 2006. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2006, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA

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1 This is an extended version of the presentation given at the CTA conference but without the musical extracts from cantatas 168, 82 and 140.

2 There have been some recent experiments on disc, not altogether unsuccessful, of performing with just four singers, one to a part – even the Matthew Passion.

3 It is well known that Bach had twenty children but most died in infancy or early childhood which was normal before the twentieth century.

4 In his first year at Leipzig, Bach wrote thirteen two-part cantatas or paired cantatas for the same service: 75, 76, 21, 24 + 185, 147, 186, 179 + 199, 70, 181 + 18, 31 + 4, 172 + 59, 194 + 165, and 22 + 23.