Christian liturgy is a pattern for worship used by a Christian congregation or denomination on a regular basis while Theology is the critical study of concepts of God and of the nature of religious ideas.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He was born in Eisenach into a great musical family and moved to Leipzig in 1723. He is extremely known for his German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmony, motivic development, use of rhythm, forms, and textures. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions --- St John (which will be the example I will base on later to answer this question) and St Matthew Passion, and over three hundred cantatas. The huge number of cantatas or rather church music composed is due to his fulfilment to the church services on Sundays, meaning Bach had to compose one cantata every week. This was mostly done in his first three years in Leipzig. In 1723, Bach was appointed Cantor of the Thomasscule at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig and he composed music for four churches in the city, the St. Thomas Church, the St. Nicholas Church, the New Church, and the St. Peter’s Church in order of the extent he wrote for these Churches. Bach’s large choral-orchestral works include the grand scale St Matthew Passion and St …show more content…
In the St John Passion, biblical narratives are brought out based on contrast. Bach’s recitatives are mostly dramatic and expressive. Bach uses very rich and daring harmonies (comparable to romantic period harmony) with wide intervallic leaps and sharply contrasting note values. His use of complicated harmonies, intervallic leaps and contrasting note values are more elaborated and strongly pronounced in Bach’s Passion or music than any other composers of his time. This start of the biblical narrative, movement 2a from bar 1 is a good
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He was born in Eisenach into a great musical family and moved to Leipzig in 1723. He is extremely known for his German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmony, motivic development, use of rhythm, forms, and textures. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions --- St John (which will be the example I will base on later to answer this question) and St Matthew Passion, and over three hundred cantatas. The huge number of cantatas or rather church music composed is due to his fulfilment to the church services on Sundays, meaning Bach had to compose one cantata every week. This was mostly done in his first three years in Leipzig. In 1723, Bach was appointed Cantor of the Thomasscule at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig and he composed music for four churches in the city, the St. Thomas Church, the St. Nicholas Church, the New Church, and the St. Peter’s Church in order of the extent he wrote for these Churches. Bach’s large choral-orchestral works include the grand scale St Matthew Passion and St …show more content…
In the St John Passion, biblical narratives are brought out based on contrast. Bach’s recitatives are mostly dramatic and expressive. Bach uses very rich and daring harmonies (comparable to romantic period harmony) with wide intervallic leaps and sharply contrasting note values. His use of complicated harmonies, intervallic leaps and contrasting note values are more elaborated and strongly pronounced in Bach’s Passion or music than any other composers of his time. This start of the biblical narrative, movement 2a from bar 1 is a good