View source for Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (BWV 614)

from Das [[Orgelbüchlein]] by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]

==Background==

In ''Das alte Jahr vergangen ist'' the music sounds melancholy and the text is associated with the close of the calendar year.<ref>Peter Williams, "Suggestions for Playing the Works of Bach: Motifs in the ''Orgelbuchlein''," ''The American Organist'' 18, (September 1984), 45.</ref> The English translation of the text is as follows:<BR>
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The old year now hath passed away;<BR>
We thank Thee, O our God to-day,<BR>
That Thou hast kept us through the year,<BR>
When danger and distress ere near.<ref>''Johann Sebastian Bach: Orgelbuchlein.'' Ed. Robert Clark and John David Peterson.  (St. Louis, MO: Concordia, 1984), ____.</ref><BR>
<Blockquote><BR>

==Registration and Organs==
Written for two manuals and pedal:<BR>
Manual I (Solo) Clairion or Oboe with soft 8' and 4' ''p''<BR>
Manual II (Accompaniment) 8', 4' flute ''pp''
Pedal Soft 16', 8' flute''pp''

==Fingering and Pedaling==
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==Articulation and Phrasing==
According to Peter Williams, the chromatic lines are best played with a legato articulation characteristic of chromatic motifs.  Note in BWV 614 how the perfect cadences, which are in fact strikingly regular and uncomplicated despite the overall mood, could then help by being detached..<ref>Peter Williams, "Suggestions for Playing the Works of Bach: Motifs in the ''Orgelbuchlein''," ''The American Organist'' 18, (September 1984), 45.</ref> This would emphasize the poignant legato of the chromatics appearing in other parts and at the same time would mark the lines of the chorale, which is not easily grasped even by those knowing the hymn's original melody which is now embellished..<ref>Peter Williams, "Suggestions for Playing the Works of Bach: Motifs in the ''Orgelbuchlein''," ''The American Organist'' 18, (September 1984), 45.</ref>

==Ornamentation==
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==Tempo and Meter==
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==Recordings==
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===Free Online===
[http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/detail.php?ID=BWV0614 James Kibbie, 1717 Trost organ, St. Walpurgis, Großengottern, Germany], using _____.

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==Notes==
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