| Bach later incorporated this cantata's beautiful final movement, a concerted setting of the same chorale melody, into his St. John's Passion. |
| In this cantata, however, Bach treats each phrase of the chorale fugally throughout the first movement. |
| The strange giddiness of the first movement is immediately subdued by the grave brass chorale that opens the dark second movement. |
| Rhythmic values are quarter, eighth and half notes, and only the major finger pattern is used in the first chorale. |
| Being raised in a Lutheran tradition, my vocal writing is largely chorale style homophony contrasting with traditional contrapuntal textures. |
| The birds are chipper at chorale practice, tweeting away on window ledges behind me. |
