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And by provichance, perfectly timed to launch on Thanksgiving Day!

Indeed.

Thanks for listening and reading! For more angels, see today's chorale (428) and the credits photo-----a 12th-c vision of the nine orders of angels, by Hildegard von Bingen

Timely as ever.

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Thank you for your attentive listening and reading!

@@BachHymnbook1750 And thank you for taking the time and effort to post these amazing songs!

Check out the key signature

​@@harvestedvoltage4324Yes, there is e flat in the key signature, but there is a natural written out in the first measure (in the bass, beat 3)

@ Ah, I was looking at the alto line and did not even think to look at the bass. However, the bass line played is markedly different from what is written - I think that the sheet music is for a slightly different of the chorale, and the recording itself is from the original. Good ear anyhow.

@@harvestedvoltage4324 I, too, think it is not a mistake, but rather a difference in editions. Even after studying music theory and composition for years, it does not cease to amaze me how vast of a difference a single semitone shift can make in the resulting music.

Sure! Just be sure to credit the source of the score as The Bach Hymnbook, and credit the translator for whichever chorale you're singing. The translator is listed in the end credits of each video, and there are different ones for different chorales, so be sure you have the correct one for that chorale. Thanks for your interest in Bach chorales!

@@BachHymnbook1750 Thank you very much. I may sing in German. In that case, it seems no translator credit.

@@gachongeem146 Correct. It would be good form, though, to credit the composer and author of the original German chorale. You can find this information on the Bach Hymnbook website (www.bachhymnbook.org/introduction-page) by clicking on the "See Chorale Scores" circle.

Yes; as is common among hymns, both chorale texts share the same tune. For many more such examples, see the 'Index by Melodic Shape' on the Bach Hymnbook website.

Herzlich willkommen!

Gracias de nuevo por escuchar

Very observant! Nevertheless, the chorale really is in e minor, hence the one-sharp key signature. The many C#'s you rightly noticed are the legacy of this melody's ancient roots, first as the plainchant "Victimae paschali laudes" (from a thousand [!] years ago), and then from its 1524 adaptation, in the early years of the Reformation, as a chorale, which, like the chant it's based on, was in the dorian mode. For further reading, start with the Wikipedia articles about "Victimae paschali" and "Christ lag in Todesbanden." Check out also Bach Hymnbook 34, "Christ ist erstanden," which is derived from the same plainchant. And thanks for listening, and watching, so intently!

Yes, and Bach apparently thought so too, since he used this tune more often than any other chorale melody!

Muchas gracias!

gracias por escuchar

Arigato gozaimasu!

Good ear! Yes, it's exactly the same melody. Then as now, well-loved tunes attracted more than one set of words. If you're curious about this, the companion website, bachhymnbook.org, has tune information for every chorale.

Thank you! This was the chorale that inspired the project, the one that "launched a thousand stanzas"

Herzlich vielen Dank!

A votre service!

Thanks for listening!

Hetzelfde! ; - )

I too had searched for this (all the Bach chorale texts, and in singable modern English). I kept hoping somebody else would do it. After fifty years of not finding it, I finally decided to do it myself!

(And the music, of course!)

The idea was the Holy Spirit as "a mighty wind" but another alert reader made the even more apt connection of the Spirit "moving over the face of the waters" in Genesis!

@@BachHymnbook1750 Excellent!

Oui, la premiere phrase est en effet toujours répétée, et dans la version ici aussi: il y a en renvoi [? marque de repetition / repeat sign] a la fin de la premiere ligne de musique et il y a deux lignes du texte dans tout les deux textes, l'anglais en l'allemandes, en l'organiste joue le premiere phrase deux fois. Merci pour votre attention et beaucoup de plaisir d/ecoute (et désolée pour mon pauvre français!)

@@BachHymnbook1750Dans la version française (c'est un rempart que notre Dieu); il y a quatre lignes de texte sur cette mélodie. La reprise est donc obligatoire. Votre français est très bon.