Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Praise God in All Lands), BWV 51, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is thought to date from around 1730, and is one of Bach's best known cantatas. Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (Bach Works Catalogue) is the numbering system used to identify musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... Cantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ... Bach redirects here. ...

The piece is written for solo soprano, trumpet, violins, violas and continuo. It is one of only four sacred cantatas that Bach wrote for a soprano (if one excludes the arrangement made by Bach of the cantata for solo bass and oboe bwv82, for flute and soprano bwv82a) and no other vocal soloists (the others being Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht!, BWV 52, Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84, and Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199). There are, however, several secular cantatas for solo soprano (bwv202, bwv204, bwv209 and bwv210). Bach's manuscript indicates that it was written for the 15th Sunday after Trinity "et in ogni tempo" ("and at any time"). Look up Soprano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Trumpeter redirects to here. ... A violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... A viola The viola (in French, alto; in German bratsche) is a stringed musical instrument played with a bow which serves as the middle voice of the violin family, between the upper lines played by the higher violin (soprano register) and the lower lines played by the deeper cello (bass... Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of integer musical notation used to indicate intervallic content (the intervals which make up a sonority), later chords, in relation to a bass note. ... Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (My Heart Swims in Blood) is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar. ...

The cantata is in four movements (or five, if the concluding Alleluja is considered a separate movement):

1. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen - a da capo aria for the whole ensemble, with the soprano treated similarly to the solo instrument in a concertante work.
2. Wir beten zu dem Tempel an ("We offer our prayers to the temple") - this is marked in the score as a recitative, but the highly melismatic nature of the vocal part is such that it might easily be called an arioso (something between a recitative and full-blown aria), with accompaniment from the strings. The text of this part is taken from Psalms 26 and 138.
3. Höchster, mache deine Güte ("Highest, renew your goodness")- an aria accompanied by the continuo only.
4. Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren ("Laud, praise and honour") - A fantasy on the fifth stanza of Johann Gramann's chorale, "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" (Bach used the same verse in a different setting to close his cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29), played by the strings and continuo, with the soprano singing the chorale as a cantus firmus. This leads into a concluding "Alleluja" fugato in which the trumpet returns, bringing the canata to a close on a particularly festive note.

The author of the text in the first and third movement is unknown; it may have been Bach himself. The da capo aria was a musical form prevalent in the Baroque era. ... In classical music, the word concerto (pl. ... Recitative, a form of composition often used in operas, oratorios, cantatas and similar works, is described as a melodic speech set to music, or a descriptive narrative song in which the music follows the words. ... In music, melisma is the technique of changing the note (pitch) of a syllable of text while it is being sung. ... This article is about the musical term aria. ... Psalms (Tehilim תהילים, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ... A chorale was originally a hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation. ... Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir (We thank you, God, we thank you) is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... In music, cantus firmus is the basic material to be set using polyphony. ... For the use of the word in psychology see fugue state In music, a fugue is a type of piece written in counterpoint for several independent musical voices. ...

Both the soprano part, which calls for a high C in the first and last movements, and the solo trumpet part are extremely virtuosic. There has been some speculation as to the identity of the singer for whom Bach wrote the cantata and for exactly what purpose it was written; women did not sing in church in Bach's day, yet the part is considered too complicated for any boy soprano to handle. No firm conclusion has been reached on the question. The trumpet part may well have been written for Gottfried Reiche. Gottfried Reiche 1667-1734 Gottfried Reiche (February 5, 1667 - October 6, 1734) was a German trumpet player and composer of the Baroque era. ...

External links

• The work at bach-cantatas.com
• The German text of the cantata with English translation
• Vocal score of the work