Bach: Durch Adams Fall

J.S.Bach: Choral prelude , BWV 637. ca.1716
* Chorale prelude.
-- organ/Luthernist tradition/ Eastern piece
-- doward d7th interval in pedal.
-- Functional Harmony
-- Choral melody as C.F. Choral
-- AAB bar form (from Meistersinger)
-- choral melody on top with ornaments
-- voices portrait images from poem: d7 (in pedal)interval leaps depicts Adam's fall:
from innocent into sin.
-- twisting, chromatic lines (alto)==> slithering of the serpent.
-- tenor: repeatedly slides down & struggles upward ==> resenting the pull of temptation, the sorrow of sin, and the struggle to overcome them.


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