rssBWV 324 Meine Seele erhebet den Herren
Four different version?
BWV 324, "Meine Seele erhebet den Herren" is a four part treatment of the Magnificat, based on an old plain chant. Each of my four editions have a different version of measures six, seven and eight. This is because there are eleven verses, each of which has a diffent number of syllables in the words of these measures. In the manner of plain chant, these words are sung as if spoken, on the pitch indicated, without a beat, or metric division. So the version of these measures will depend on which verse is being sung.
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on 2009, June 23 at 08:11 AM
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