Sound, you drums! Sound out trumpets!
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Sound, you drums! Sound out trumpets! | |
| BWV: | 214 |
| Occasion: | Birthday of the Electress |
| Year of origin: | 1733 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Congratulatory cantata |
| Solo : | S, A, T, B |
| Instruments : |
Trba I-III, Timp , Fltr I / II, Ob I / II, Str , Bc |
| AD : | approx. 27 minutes |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Sound, you drums! Sound out trumpets! ( BWV 214 or BC G19), also known as the Queen Cantata , is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Emergence
The work was performed on December 8, 1733 as a congratulatory cantata on the occasion of the birthday of Maria Josepha , Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland, with the subtitle Dramma per musica . Sentences 1, 5, 7 and 9 were reused with a different text and only minor musical adjustments in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of the Christmas Oratorio using the counterfactor method and were thus widely used.
Subject
In the nine-movement work, the lyricist of which is unknown, four goddesses from ancient mythology praise the queen.
occupation
- Bellona , goddess of war ( soprano )
- Pallas , goddess of muses and science ( old )
- Irene , goddess of peace ( tenor )
- Fama , goddess of fame ( bass )
- Orchestra with 3 trumpets , timpani , 2 transverse flutes , 2 oboes , oboe d'amore , 2 violins , viola , basso continuo
The extent to which the choir can be cast multiple times is not clear from the autograph score. The original voice material has only survived in fragments.
particularities
It is one of the numerous congratulatory cantatas written between 1733 and 1744 which, due to their occasional character, were intended for a one-off performance only. It is possible that Bach wanted to preserve the outstanding and important parts of the work by reusing them in the Christmas Oratorio .
The text “Tone, you timpani! Sound up, trumpets! ”Is anticipated in the opening choir by the order of appearance of the instruments mentioned. The transfer from secular origin to a cycle of sacred cantatas intended for the Christmas season was not problematic according to the baroque worldview. Timpani and trumpets could be used both as insignia of secular kingship and to glorify the "king" Jesus.
According to the occasion, the work is characterized by a joyful and festive mood and is one of the most popular secular Bach cantatas to this day.
literature
- Alfred Dürr: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by JS Bach. 1947, 5th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4 .
- Hans-Joachim Schulze : The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig; Carus-Verlag , Stuttgart 2006, (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verl.)
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler , Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
- Fiction
- Thomas Rosenlöcher : "You linden trees in Saxony bloom like cedars!" - Like the cantata «Do you sound timpani! Sound out trumpets »was created. Lecture on the Bach cantata BWV 214 on August 14, 2014. JS Bach Foundation , St. Gallen 2015.
Recordings (selection)
- JS Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 5; BWV 213 and BWV 214. Joanne Lunn , Robin Blaze , Makoto Sakurada , Dominik Wörner , Bach Collegium Japan , Masaaki Suzuki . UNTIL 2015.
Web links
Digital copies
- Autograph score , Berlin State Library
- Original parts (incomplete), Berlin State Library
Sheet music and audio files
- Cantata 214 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
text
Further information
- Structure and full text of the cantata on the University of Alberta website
- Source description of the original score , source database RISM
- Materials for the cantata BWV 214 from Bach digital of the Leipzig Bach Archive
