Music for OT-17-C (Jul 29)

Prelude:           Vater unser (BWV 636): Bach
Processional Hymn: 331: Faith Of Our Fathers
Kyrie:             -spoken-
Gloria:            135: Angels and Saints: Janco
Readings:          628
Intercessions:     -spoken-
Offertory:         335: Seek Ye First
Acclamations:      140-141-145: Angels and Saints: Janco
Agnus Dei:         146: Angels and Saints: Janco
Communion Hymn:    470: O Lord With Wondrous Mystery
Final Hymn:        310: Sing Praise To God Who Reigns
Postlude:          Praeludium und Fuge in e-moll: Bruhns

Music Notes:


Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote seven pieces
for organ based on the German hymn-tune "Vater unser im
Himmelreich" (Our Father Who Art In Heaven). The hymn breaks
the Lord's Prayer into sections, each taken in turn as the
first stanza line; the remaining stanza lines are poetic
meditations (e.g., "Our Father in the heaven Who art, /
Who tellest all of us, in heart / Brothers to be, and on
Thee call / And wilt have prayer from one and all, / Grant
that the mouth not only pray, / From deepest heart O help
its way."). BWV 636 is a chorale prelude found in his
Orgelbuchlein (1717).


Nikolaus Bruhns (1665-1697), born in Swabstedt (near Husum)
Schleswig Germany, studied violin and gamba with his uncle
Peter Bruhns, and organ and composition with Dietrich Buxtehude
(1637-1707) who recommended him for a job as violinist and
composer at the Copenhagen court. He later was organist in Husum.
The "Prelude and Fugue" is one of five surviving pieces for
organ, and reflects the influence of his teacher: pedal solos,
crashing cords, bravura passages, zig-zag fugue melodies.
Bach admired Bruhns music. Bach walked 200+ miles to hear
Buxtehude play (1705).