page_title: Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage, BWV 248 I
section_title: 7
hierarchical_section_title: Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage, BWV 248 I / Music / Movements / 7
caption_attribution_description: Gregorian plain chant from Geystliche gesangk Buchleyn (1524) by Johann Walter: No. XXII "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ".
context_page_description: Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage, BWV 248ᴵ, is a 1734 Christmas cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach that serves as the first part of his Christmas Oratorio. Bach was then Thomaskantor, responsible for church music at four churches in Leipzig, a position he had assumed in 1723. For the oratorio, the libretto by an unknown author followed the nativity of Jesus from the Gospel of Luke, interspersed with reflecting texts for recitatives and arias, and stanzas from Lutheran hymns.
  The cantata is structured in nine movements. An extended choral introduction is followed by two scenes, each a sequence of four movements. Both scenes are composed of a quotation from the Gospel of Luke, a recitative reflecting the narration, an aria-like prayer or meditation, and a chorale setting a stanza from a Lutheran hymn. Bach scored the cantata for three vocal soloists, a four-part choir and a festive Baroque orchestra with trumpets, timpani, flutes, oboes and strings. A tenor soloist narrates the Biblical story in secco recitative, as the Evangelist.
context_section_description: In a combination of chorale and recitative, the soprano sings the sixth stanza, "Er ist auf Erden kommen arm" (He came to earth poor), from Luther's hymn "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ" in a triple metre and embellished. Line by line, it is interspersed with comments by the bass, who begins "Wer will die Liebe recht erhöhn" (Who can rightly exalt this love), in contrasting common time. The voices are supported by two oboes d'amore.
caption: The chorale melody of "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ" in Johann Walter's Wittenberg Hymnal
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