Chorale Wednesdays
Each week, Sonoma Bach's Music Director Robert Worth will choose one of our favorite Bach Chorales, each a brilliant miniature of Bach's astonishing craft, for us all to learn at our own pace. Your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to learn to sing your part and then join your voice with the voices and instruments of the professional recording.
We will provide the score and translations, a midi practice track, and a professional recording, all listed below.
Each week, Sonoma Bach's Music Director Robert Worth will choose one of our favorite Bach Chorales, each a brilliant miniature of Bach's astonishing craft, for us all to learn at our own pace. Your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to learn to sing your part and then join your voice with the voices and instruments of the professional recording.
We will provide the score and translations, a midi practice track, and a professional recording, all listed below.
Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen by Michael Praetorius
Monday's song was cheerful in a secular sort of way--drinking and socializing and all that. Today's song, Michael Praetorius' arrangement of a traditional Christmas carol called 'Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen' is just as cheerful, but in a sacred-music context.
The tune itself, first published with words by Daniel Rumpius in 1587, is pretty darned catchy. It's got some kicky rhythms and a jolly sort of melodic shape, plus interesting tags on the last two phrases which give it a pleasing asymmetrical flavor.
And then there's Praetorius' inimitable harmonization, slightly archaic as compared with Bach, but wholly pleasing withal, with a lively sense of polyphony alternating with a homophonic texture.
Monday's song was cheerful in a secular sort of way--drinking and socializing and all that. Today's song, Michael Praetorius' arrangement of a traditional Christmas carol called 'Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen' is just as cheerful, but in a sacred-music context.
The tune itself, first published with words by Daniel Rumpius in 1587, is pretty darned catchy. It's got some kicky rhythms and a jolly sort of melodic shape, plus interesting tags on the last two phrases which give it a pleasing asymmetrical flavor.
And then there's Praetorius' inimitable harmonization, slightly archaic as compared with Bach, but wholly pleasing withal, with a lively sense of polyphony alternating with a homophonic texture.
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