This article is about a Lutheran music genre. For the literary genre, see Lutheran hymn. For other chorales, see chorale.
The third stanza of the eponymous chorale in Johann Sebastian Bach's setting as the final movement of his chorale cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
A Lutheran chorale is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant Church service. The typical four-part setting of a chorale, in which the sopranos (and the congregation) sing the melody along with three lower voices, is known as a chorale harmonization.
A Lutheranchorale is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant Church service. The typical four-part...
A chorale is the name of several related musical forms originating in the music genre of the Lutheranchorale: Hymn tune of a Lutheran hymn (e.g. the melody...
A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheranchorale. It is principally from the German Baroque era. The organizing...
Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale harmonisations, alternatively named four-part chorales, are Lutheran hymn settings that characteristically conform to the...
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(community). Lutheran hymns are sometimes known as chorales. Lutheran hymnody is well known for its doctrinal, didactic, and musical richness. Most Lutheran churches...
the Lutheranchorale, the musical life of ELCA congregations is just as diverse as its worship. Johann Sebastian Bach, the most famous Lutheran composer...
the chorale for eight voices, one of the 1200 arrangements of Lutheranchorales in his Musae Sioniae. Johann Sebastian Bach used the complete chorale as...
motets. He often adopted Lutheran hymns, not only in his larger vocal works but for instance also in his four-part chorales and his sacred songs. He wrote...
ostinato. Chorale or Chorale setting – Form originating or related to the Lutheranchorale. Lutheranchorale – Musical setting of a Lutheran hymn. Chorale cantata...
chorale concerto is a sacred concerto based on a Lutheranchorale. There were two basic types of chorale concerto: A simple composition for voice and basso...
The term, however, derives from the letter of protestation from German Lutheran princes in 1529 against an edict of the Diet of Speyer condemning the teachings...
and various German Lutheranchorales. In that latter respect it was used by Johann Sebastian Bach as a cantus firmus in his chorale cantata Herr Gott,...
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for writing a series of chorale cantatas was inspired by the bicentennial anniversary of the first publications of Lutheran hymnals (1524). The first...
usually in a Protestant, and originally in a Lutheran, church. This assumption may be valid for the shorter chorale preludes (Bach's setting of 'Liebster Jesu...
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proportion of the European population that rebelled against Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed Churches was small, Radical Reformers wrote profusely, and...
setting by Dr. Alfred Fremder; and The Divine Service: Rite Four is the Lutheran "Chorale Mass". Other services included here are The Office of the Prime, Matins...
Reformers and the Radical Reformers. The Magisterial Reformation "denotes the Lutheran, Calvinist [Reformed], and Anglican churches" and how these denominations...
published posthumously in 1902. They are based on verses of nine Lutheranchorales, two of them set twice, and are relatively short, compact miniatures...
poetry, Lutheran hymns and dicta. Hymns were mostly set to their Lutheranchorale tune. His chorale cantata cycle contains at least 40 chorale cantatas...
in the baroque can be divided into works based on Lutheranchorales (e.g. chorale preludes and chorale fantasias) and those not (e.g. toccatas, fantasias...
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