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Terms & Abbreviations: Terms & Abbreviations with Bach connection | General Abbreviations | Voices & Instruments | Musical Terms | Acronyms of Performers | Abbreviations used for the Chorales | Use of Concerto, J.J. and SDG in Bach's Sacred Works

Chorales BWV 250-438: Details and Recordings
Individual Recordings: Hilliard - Morimur | Chorales - N. Matt | Chorales - H. Rilling | Preludi ai Corali - Quartetto Italiani di Viola Da Gamba
Discussions: Motets & Chorales for Events in the LCY / Chorales by Theme | General Discussions: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Chorales in Bach Cantatas: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Passion Chorale
References: Chorales BWV 250-300 | Chorales BWV 301-350 | Chorales BWV 351-400 | Chorales BWV 401-438 | 371 4-Part Chorales sorted by Breitkopf Number | Texts & Translations of Chorales BWV 250-438
Chorale Texts: Sorted by Title | Chorale Melodies: Sorted by Title | Explanation
MIDI files of the Chorales: Cantatas BWV 1-197 | Other Vocal Works BWV 225-248 | Chorales BWV 250-438
Articles: The Origin of the Texts of the Chorales [A. Schweitzer] | The Origin of the Melodies of the Chorales [A. Schweitzer] | The Chorale in the Church Service [A. Schweitzer] | Choral / Chorale [C.S. Terry] | Hidden Chorale Melody Allusions [T. Braatz] | The History of the Breitkopf Collection of J. S. Bach’s Four-Part Chorales [T. Braatz] | The World of the Bach Chorale Settings [W.L. Hoffman]
Hymnals: Hymnals used by Bach | Wagner Hymnal 1697 | Evangelisches Gesangbuch 1995 | Dietel Chorale List c1734
Abbreviations used for the Chorales | Links to other Sites about the Chorales


Technical & Musical Terms & Abbreviations
Part 6: Abbreviations used for the Chorales

BC: Bach Compendium Schulze/Wolff. Begun in 1985, by 1989 4 vols. had appeared, gives source-critical and bibliographical information on all of J.S. Bach's works.

Br: 4-part chorales in J.S. Bach’s Vierstimmige Choralegesänge, edited by Johann Philipp Kirnberger & Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Leipzig, 1784-1787) [Breitkopf]

CM: Chorale Melody

CST: Charles Stanford Terry: The Four-Part Chorales of J.S. Bach (Oxford University Press, 1929)

CT: Chorale Text

Di: Dietel. Johann Ludwig Dietel’s collection of 149 Bach chorales from circa 1734.

EG: EKD, Evangelisches Gesangbuch (Stammausgabe) Biblia-Druck (Stuttgart, 1995).

EKG: Ev.Luth Kirche Niedersachen, Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch, Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hannover (1974)

ELG: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch (1872)

ELS: Erbauliche Lieder-Sammlung: zum gottestdienstlichen Gebrauch in den Vereinigten Evangelische-Lutherischen Gemeinen in Pennsylvanien und den benachbarten Staaten (1826)

Fischer-Tümpel = Albert Fischer and W. Tümpel: Das deutsche evangelische Kirchenlied des 17. Jahrhunderts (Gütersloh, 1904-1916; reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1960), Vols. I-VI

GBEB: Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeine (Basel, 2007)

GGEL: Gesangbuch für Gemeinden des Evangelisch-Lutherischen Bekenntnisses (1870; 14th edition, 1886)

GH: Christian Friedrich Witt: Psalmodia Sacra, Oder: Andächtige und schöne Gesänge…” = Gotha Hymnal (Gotha, 1715)

GLEK: Geistliche Lieder der evangelischen Kirche, by Wilhelm Julius Carl Mützell (Braunschweig, 1858)

GMH: Niemeyer, E. (ed.), 1925, Große Missionsharfe - Erster Band, Bertelsmann (Gütersloh, 1925)

KE: Kalmus Edition.

KELG: Kirchenbuch für Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeinden (1877)

KGEL: Kirchen-Gesangbuch für Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeinden (St. Louis, Mo. : Lutherischer Concordia-Verlag, 1862/1888)

KGUG: Kleines Gesang- und Gebetbuch (1940)

KMH: Bertelsmann, D., Kleine Missionsharfe im Kirchen und Volkston, 79. Auflage, Bertelsmann, (Gütersloh, 1919)

MHB: Moravian Hymn-Book (1877)

NGBS: Neueingerichtetes Gesang-Buch, enthaltend eine Sammlung (mehrentheils alter) erbaulicher Lieder, nach den Hauptstücken der christlichen Lehre und Glaubens eingetheilet (1813)

NLGB: Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch, edited by Gottfried Vopelius (1682)

OB: Orgelbüchlein as

RE: Riemenschneider Edition. Chorales' appearance in the Riemenschneider edition commonly used in the US. The numbers correspond very closely (though not identically) to the Breitkopf edition on which it is based.

Zahn: Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder (Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1889-1893), a critical anthology of almost 9000 hymn melodies developed and used in German Lutheran churches, compiled by the German theologian and musicologist Johannes Christoph Andreas Zahn (1817-1895)

Prepared by Thomas Braatz, Francis Browne & Aryeh Oron (August 2005 - February 2019)


Terms & Abbreviations: Terms & Abbreviations with Bach connection | General Abbreviations | Voices & Instruments | Musical Terms | Acronyms of Performers | Abbreviations used for the Chorales | Use of Concerto, J.J. and SDG in Bach's Sacred Works

Chorales BWV 250-438: Details and Recordings
Individual Recordings: Hilliard - Morimur | Chorales - N. Matt | Chorales - H. Rilling | Preludi ai Corali - Quartetto Italiani di Viola Da Gamba
Discussions: Motets & Chorales for Events in the LCY / Chorales by Theme | General Discussions: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Chorales in Bach Cantatas: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Passion Chorale
References: Chorales BWV 250-300 | Chorales BWV 301-350 | Chorales BWV 351-400 | Chorales BWV 401-438 | 371 4-Part Chorales sorted by Breitkopf Number | Texts & Translations of Chorales BWV 250-438
Chorale Texts: Sorted by Title | Chorale Melodies: Sorted by Title | Explanation
MIDI files of the Chorales: Cantatas BWV 1-197 | Other Vocal Works BWV 225-248 | Chorales BWV 250-438
Articles: The Origin of the Texts of the Chorales [A. Schweitzer] | The Origin of the Melodies of the Chorales [A. Schweitzer] | The Chorale in the Church Service [A. Schweitzer] | Choral / Chorale [C.S. Terry] | Hidden Chorale Melody Allusions [T. Braatz] | The History of the Breitkopf Collection of J. S. Bach’s Four-Part Chorales [T. Braatz] | The World of the Bach Chorale Settings [W.L. Hoffman]
Hymnals: Hymnals used by Bach | Wagner Hymnal 1697 | Evangelisches Gesangbuch 1995 | Dietel Chorale List c1734
Abbreviations used for the Chorales | Links to other Sites about the Chorales




 

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