Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147a

Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life), BWV 147a,^{[lower-alpha 1]} is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Weimar in 1716 for the fourth Sunday in Advent and first performed it on 20 December. He later expanded the work in 1723 as Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147.

History and text

On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule.^[1] He likely wrote the work in 1716, his last year in Weimar, for the fourth Sunday of Advent, although it may not have been performed at the time. The prescribed readings for the day were from the Epistle to the Philippians (Philippians 4:4–7) and the Gospel of John (John 1:19–28). The cantata uses a text by Salomo Franck.^[2]

Scoring and structure

The work was scored for four solo voices (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) and a four-part choir.^[3] As the music is now lost, the cantata's instrumentation is unclear, but was likely similar to BWV 147. The piece has six movements:

Chorus: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
Aria: Schäme dich, o Seele nicht
Aria: Hilf, Jesu, hilf, dass ich auch dich bekenne
Aria: Bereite dir, Jesu, noch heute die Bahn
Aria: Laß mich der Rufer Stimme hören
Chorale: Dein Wort laß mich bekennen

When Bach expanded the cantata, he probably used the same opening movement, the first aria as movement 3, the second as movement 7, the third as movement 5, and the fourth with a new text as moement 9. The closing chorale was not used in the later work.

Notes

↑ "BWV" is Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, a thematic catalogue of Bach's works.

References

↑ Koster, Jan. "Weimar 1708–1717". let.rug.nl. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
↑ "Cantata BWV 147a". bach-cantatas. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
↑ "BWV 147a". University of Alberta. Retrieved 23 July 2013.

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Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach

Before Leipzig	Early: BWV 4 131 71 106 196 150 143 Weimar: BWV 61 70a 186a 132 174a 63 152 155 18 54 80a 182 31 12 172 165 21 185 199 161 162 163 Köthen: BWV Anh. 5

First cycle (1723–24)	Between Trinity and Advent: BWV 75 76 24 167 147 186 136 105 46 179 69a 77 25 138 95 148 48 109 89 60 90 70 From Advent to Trinity: BWV 40 64 190 153 65 154 73 81 83 144 181 22 23 66 134 67 104 166 86 37 44 59 184

Second cycle (& chorale cantatas)	Chorale cantatas between Trinity and Easter: BWV 20 2 7 135 10 93 107 178 94 101 113 33 78 99 8 130 114 96 5 180 38 115 139 26 116 62 91 121 133 122 41 123 124 3 111 92 125 126 127 1 Continuation of the second cycle: BWV 6 42 85 103 108 87 128 183 74 68 175 176 Later additions to the chorale cantata cycle: BWV 80 137 129 58 112 140 177 9 14 Other late chorale cantatas: BWV 117 192 100 97

Third cycle	After Trinity 1725: BWV 168 164 79 Liturgical year 1725–26: BWV 110 57 151 28 16 32 13 72 146 43 39 88 170 187 45 102 35 17 19 27 47 169 56 49 98 55 52 1727: BWV 82 84 34 173

Later and other	Picander cycle: BWV 149 188 197a 171 156 159 145 174 Late parodies: BWV 36 30 191 200 1083 Council election: BWV 119 193 Anh. 3 29 120 69 Wedding: BWV 34a 195 120a 197 Funeral: 157 244a Other: 194 190a 120b 51 158 50 248/VIa Doubtful: 53 142 189 217 220 221 223 224

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