Chorale

Bach chorale rules

Bach chorale rules
  1. What is true of a Bach chorale?
  2. What are the steps for harmonizing a chorale melody?
  3. What is the period of Bach chorale?

What is true of a Bach chorale?

Bach's chorales are strictly choral arrangements of well-known hymn tunes adorned with elaborate harmony; he never composed an original chorale. In modern times the chorale is considered to be a musical setting, usually polyphonic, of a traditional religious text.

What are the steps for harmonizing a chorale melody?

The first few steps given here are designed to make the chorale more approachable and to make its structure easier to understand.

  1. Step 1: mark where the cadences appear. ...
  2. Step 2: work out the tonic key of the chorale. ...
  3. Step 3: work out possible cadences for each phrase and a possible approach chord.

What is the period of Bach chorale?

Most chorale cantatas were written between approximately 1650 and 1750. By far the most famous are by J. S. Bach, especially the cantatas composed in his second annual cycle of cantatas, started in Leipzig in 1724.

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