Motets / Johann Ludwig Bach ; edited by Daniel R. Melamed.

Format:

• Musical score

Author/Creator:

• Bach, Johann Ludwig, 1677-1731, composer.

Contributor:

• Melamed, Daniel R., editor.

Series:

• Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 108.
• Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
• Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 108
• Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Language:

• English
• German

Subjects (All):

• Motets--Germany--18th century--Scores.
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 8 parts) with continuo.

Genre:

• Motets.
• Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xviii, 210 pages, 3 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.

Language Note:

German words, also printed as texts with English translations on pages xii-xviii.

Summary:

"This edition presents for the first time all the known motets by Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1731), a cousin of Johann Sebastian who spent most of his professional career at the small court of Meiningen. Johann Ludwig is best known as a composer of cantatas, including some of the very earliest using modern "Neumeister-type" texts, eighteen of which Johann Sebastian Bach performed in Leipzig. The compositions, mostly for eight-part double chorus, are important examples of the early eighteenth-century German motet by one of the most talented composers of his time. They are the most ambitious and best motets outside of Johann Sebastian Bach's own, and show Johann Ludwig Bach's creative approach to his texts, harmonic sureness, contrapuntal control (within the limits of the style), a fondness for interesting constructive devices, and melodic gift. The principal source for all of the motets--two manuscripts from the so-called Amalienbibliothek--apparently have a connection to the Bach family. This raises the possibility that Johann Sebastian Bach, who was demonstrably interested in motets by members of his family and was a conduit for many of their works, knew these pieces, just as he was familiar with Johann Ludwig Bach's cantatas." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Das Blut Jesu Christi
• Das ist meine Freude
• Die richtig vor sich gewandelt haben
• Gedenke meiner, mein Gott
• Gott sei uns gnädig
• Ich habe dich ein klein Augenblick verlassen
• Ich will auf den Herren schauen
• Sei nun wieder zufrieden, meine Seele
• Uns ist ein Kind geboren
• Unsere Trübsal, die zeitlich und leicht ist
• Wir wissen, so unser irdisches Haus dieser Hütten zerbrochen wird.

Notes:

• For mixed chorus (6-12 voices, principally 8 parts) with continuo; unfigured bass not realized.
• Edited from copyists' manuscripts in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz (AmB 90, AmB 326).
• Includes introduction and critical report.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed November 14, 2019).

OCLC:

1128683913

Publisher Number:

B108 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)