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Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf

Motet

BWV 226

by J. S. Bach

Arranged for SATB-SATB Recorders

by Peter Billam

© Peter J Billam, 2006

This score is offered under the

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

licence; see creativecommons.org

This printing 17 February 2014.

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Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226

Johann Sebastian Bach has bequeathed us six motets. They were first published in 1803

by Breitkopf u. Härtel in an edition by Schicht, the Thomaskantor at the time. The

manuscripts of two of them survive, including that of Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit

auf , and its parts are marked Motette bei Beerdigung des seel. Professoris und Rectoris

Ernesti, who died in October 1729. In the score a figured bass for organ is written out,and the first choir is to be supported by strings, and the second by oboes, taille (cor-

anglais, roughly) and bassoon.

Several of the expressive motifs that Schweizer discusses make an appearance, for

example the step-motif in denn er vertritt (e.g. in the alto at bar 178) and the Joy-motif of

Heiligen (e.g. in the tenor at 180).

This edition makes the motet available for recorders. The words are mostly omitted, but

the ends of phrases, where breaths would usually be taken, have been indicated with

breath-marks. Some implied legato has been made explicit with slurs, though choirs donot always sing legato in extended passages on one vowel. In general, quavers joined by

beams should be slurred together, according to the conventional notation of vocal music.

In the first movement the quavers Bb-A-Bb occur frequently; there is an alternative

fingering on the C-recorders which might be useful, using half the right ring-finger, and

the A played with the middle finger. The Allabreve, in order to retain rhythmic vitality,

needs clear articulation of its phrases.

The thrilling, jubilant eight-voice counterpoint of the first movement gradually merges to

four-voice counterpoint during the course of the motet. The basses unite in bars 132, the

tenors in bar 134, the altos in 136 and the the sopranos finally in the Allabreve, bar 146.This complicates the distribution of Parts:

Soprano and Alto of choir 1 need pages 19-24, 25-27

Tenor and Bass of choir 1 need pages 19-24, 34-36

Soprano and Alto of choir 2 need pages 28-33, 25-27

Tenor and Bass of choir 2 need pages 28-33, 34-36

Peter J Billam

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3Motet: Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf

J. S. Bach, BWV226

Arranged for SATB−SATB Recorders by Peter Billam

1. Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf

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4 Motet: Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf, J. S. Bach, BWV226


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2. Allabreve: Der aber die Herzen forschet

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3. Choral: Du heilige Brunst

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20 Choir 1 part, Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf


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21Choir 1 part, Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf


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26 Soprano and Alto part, Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf


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27Soprano and Alto part, Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf


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36 Tenor and Bass part, Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf


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ccBY

Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from 1973 to1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as Musical Director

of the Théâtre Populaire Romand , and as recording engineer, record producer and computer

programmer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, lectured in composition at the Conservatorium,conducted recorder ensembles and choirs, studied recorder, voice and harpsichord. He founded

www.pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line, with on-line delivery,taking scores from Composer to Performer in one immediate step. Www.pjb.com.au offers a new

approach to music publishing. These pieces are written to be read, made to be played !

Compositions at www.pjb.com.au include: Five Short Pieces, guitar, 1979; Divisions on an ItalianGround , flute and guitar, 1980; De Profundis and Nacht , on poems by Lama Anagarika Govinda, voice and

piano, 1980; Fünf Bagatellen, piano, 1980; Five Rounds, choir, 1986; Go Forth and Multiply, choir, 1986;

Three Violin Duets, 1987; Fable, for piano, 1987; To Erich Jantsch, SAATTB recorders, 1988; A Suite of

Curves, trombone (or horn) and piano, 1990; Two Recorder Duets, alto recorders, or other melody

instruments, 1991;Trombone Quintet

, trombone, flute, piano, bass, and percussion, 1994;Three Songs

, onpoems by Jack Kerouac, Vikram Seth and Dylan Thomas, voice and piano (only the first and third of these are

available), 1994; Piano Study, piano, 1994; Four Dances, various ensembles including recorder quartet,

string quartet, 1995; The Poet in the Clouds, on a poem by S. T. Coleridge, SATB choir, 1995; Tr es Casidas

del Diván del Tamarit , on poems by Federico García Lorca, voice and piano, 1997; Three Suites, for the

solo line, piano, and piano and a solo line, 2000; Die Zeiten, on poems by Kästner, Bachman and Jünger,

choir (only the second and third of these are available), 2000; Three Duets for flutes, 2001; For Four Hands for

piano four hands, 2002; Three Preludes for piano, 2003; Second Solo Suite for flute, violin, viola or cello,

2003; Guitar Duet for two guitars, 2006; We Who Mourn for choir, 2007; Trio With Guitar for guitar and

two clarinets or two recorders or two violas, 2008; Canons for two- and four-hand piano, 2009; Flute Trio,

2012; Ke yboard Studies, 2013.

Arrangements include: By J. S. Bach: Trio BWV 655, piano and flute; Vor deinen Thron BWV 668,piano; Fugue in F minor BWV 689, SATB recorders; Four Duets BWV 802-5, keyboard; Flute Sonata BWV

1031 transposed into G major for alto recorder and keyboard; Flute Sonata BWV 1032 completed by Peter

Billam for flute and keyboard, also in C major for alto recorder, and in G major for descant; Ricercare a 3,

from the Musikalisches Opfer for keyboard; Ricercare a 6 , for sSATBG recorders, or strings, or two

keyboards; Fuga Canonica in Epidiapente for keyboard and melody instrument; from the Art of Fugue:

Contrapuncti 1, 4 and 9 for keyboard, and Contrapunctus 14 as completed by D. F. Tovey, for keyboard, or

for SATB recorders, or for strings; Passacaglia and Fugue in c for piano four hands; Chorales with Descant

for melody instrument and piano; Cello Suites I , II and III for flute or alto recorder, Forty Chorales for

piano, Der Geist hilft for SATB-SATB recorders. By Johannes Brahms: Fugue in Ab minor for organ, for

SATB recorders and gamba, in A minor; Choralvorspiele for organ plus settings by Isaac, Bach, Praetorius,

recorders. John Carr, Divisions on an Italian Ground , flute or recorder and guitar. By G. F. Händel:

Concerto Grosso in A minor op 6 no 4, harpsichord and recorders; Recorder Sonata in Bb no 5, in G for

tenor recorder and keyboard. Claudio Monteverdi, Ecco Mormorar l’Onde, SSATB recorders. By Arnold

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht for piano. By Franz Schubert: Four Songs, voice and guitar; Dances,recorders and guitar, Dances, piano 4 hands. Scriabin, Two Preludes op.67; Five Preludes op.74, piano.

Telemann, Twelve Flute Fantasias, recorder. John Wilbye, Draw on sweet Night , SSATTB recorders, and

for flute choir. Twelve Italian Songs, voice and guitar; Fourteen Folk Dance Tunes, recorder and guitar;

Bushband Dances, violin, piano accordeon and banjo; Easy Classical Pieces, Bb trumpet and piano.

These pieces are under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Very briefly:

• You may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

• You may transform and build upon the material for any purpose.

• You must give appropriate credit, and indicate if changes were made.

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