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Sing BWV 115 Make yourself ready, my mind
French title	Look for my soul
Liturgy	Twenty-second Sunday after the Trinity
Composition date	1724
Author (s) of the text
1, 6 : Johann Burchard Freystein
Original texts
Translation of J-P. Grivois, note note after-content-x4 Interlinear French translation French translation of M. Seiler
Instrumental
Soli : S A T B Satb choir Flute, love oboe, violin I/II, viola, piccolo cello, continuous bass,
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Make yourself ready, my mind ( Look for my soul ) (BWV 115) is a religious cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach composed in Leipzig in 1724.

Bach composes cantata in the second year in Leipzig on the occasion of the twenty-second Sunday after the Trinity ^{[ first ]} . For this liturgical destination, two other cantatas crossed the threshold of posterity: the BWV 55 and 89. That year, Bach composed an Ode Cantates Choral Cycle, started on the first Sunday after the Trinity of 1724 ^{[ 2 ] , [ 3 ]} . The readings prescribed for this Sunday are taken from the epistle in the Philippians, thanks and prayer for the Assembly of Philippes (1: 3–11), and from the Gospel according to Matthieu, the parable of the ungrateful servant (18: 23– 35).

Cantata is based on a tinner in ten stanzas of Johann Burchard Freystein (1695) ^{[ 4 ]} which develops a unique theme associated with the Gospel: prepare by listening and prayer to the arrival of the Lord ^{[ first ]} . An unknown poet retains the first and last stanzas for first ^is And 6 ^{It is} Movements. It derives internal movements in the form of alternate sequence of aria and recitatives from interior stanzas, using the 2 ^{It is} for the 2 ^{It is} movement, the 3 ^{It is} And 6 ^{It is} stanzas for the 3 ^{It is} movement, the 7 ^{It is} stanza for the 4 ^{It is} movement, keeps the first two to unchanged and the 8 ^{It is} And 9 ^{It is} stanzas for the 5 ^{It is} movement ^{[ first ]} . The choral is sung on the anonymous melody of Don’t crime me in your anger (1681) ^{[ 5 ]} .

Bach inaugure the canta le November 5, 1724 ^{[ first ]} .

The choral theme is inspired by the psalm “Don’t crime me in your anger” . This piece is found as a dance air called Lament in a manuscript dated at least 1681. It was then printed as church song (Aria) in the Hundreds of clergy and strange spiritual arias in Dresden in 1694.

Cantate is written for flute, love oboe, two violins, viola, piccolo and continuous bass cello, four soloists (soprano, viola, tenor, bass) and choir with four voices.

There are six movements:

1. Choir: Make yourself ready, my mind
2. air : Oh, sleepy soul, how? Are you still resting? , high
3. Recitative: God, like this in front of your soul , low
4. air : But also pray in it , soprano
5. Recitative: He looks for our screaming , tenor
6. choral : So let’s keep watching, so

The opening choir is a choral fantasy in the form of a passacaille. The instruments execute independent concert chamber music arranged in three groups, the flute, the ambois of love and the strings in unison. The soprano sing the melody as singing firm , the more serious voices are arranged in imitation, part in Homophonie. The alto aria (“oh, sleeping soul – are you still at rest?”) Began, as Klaus Hofmann notes, “like a scene of musical sleep of a genre that could have decorated an opera of the ‘era ” ^{[ 2 ]} . Brand adagio , The Hautbois d’amour plays a solo to the rhythm of a Sicilian, leading to a “long, peaceful note almost” sleepy “. The exhortation of the text to be vigilant (“punishment could suddenly wake you up and, if you are not warned, hide yourself in the sleep of eternal death”) appears in the contrasting central section, marked allegro ^{[ 2 ]} .

In the soprano aria But also pray in it (“But you should also pray”), the flute and the piccolo cello play a chamber music to which the solo adds a “noble canteen”. The closing choral is a four -part provision of the final call: “also let’s always be vigilant, implor and pray” ^{[ 2 ]} .

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