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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Anglican chant, As Pants the Hart (Handel), Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, Beatus Vir (Gorecki), Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148, Chichester Psalms, Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75, Die Himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76, Dixit Dominus (Handel), Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe, BWV 25, Es wartet alles auf dich, BWV 187, Hear My Prayer, Ich hatte viel Bekummernis, BWV 21, Ihr Tore zu Zion, BWV 193, In convertendo Dominus, I was glad, Le roi David, Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69a, Miserere (Allegri), Nisi Dominus (Handel), Psalm 42 (Mendelssohn), Psalm 90 (Ives), Requiem (Rutter), Rivers of Babylon, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190, Symphony of Psalms, Tehillim (Reich), Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate, Vesperae de Dominica (Mozart), Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29, Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns halt, BWV 178. Excerpt: (English: The heavens are telling the glory of God), BWV 76, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the church cantata in Leipzig for the second Sunday after Trinity within the liturgical year and first performed it on 6 June 1723. Bach composed the cantata at a decisive turning point in his career. Moving from posts in the service of churches and courts to the town of Leipzig on the first Sunday after Trinity, 30 May 1723, he began the project of composing a new cantata for every occasion of the liturgical year. He began his first annual cycle of cantatas ambitiously with, in an unusual layout of 14 movements in two symmetrical parts, to be performed before and after the sermon. shows the same structure. The unknown poet begins his text with a quotation from an Old Testament psalm and refers to both prescribed readings from the New Testament, the parable of the great banquet as the Gospel, and the First Epistle of John. Bach scored Part I with a trumpet as a symbol of God's Glory. In Part II, performed after the sermon and during communion, he wrote chamber music with oboe d'amore and viola da gamba, dealing with "brotherly devotion." Both parts are closed with a stanza of Martin Luther's hymn (1524). Johann Sebastian Bach had served in several churches as Kantor, cantor and organist, and at the courts of Weimar and Kothen, when he applied for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig. He was 38 years old and had a reputation as an organist and organ expert. He had composed church cantatas, notably the funeral cantata Actus tragicus around 1708. In Weimar, he and had begun a project to cover all occasions of the liturgical year by providing one cantata a month for four years, including works such as Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12, and Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61. Bach composed the cantata for the Second Sunday after Trinity and first performed it in a service in the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, on 6 June 1723, a week after he took up position as c
