ETHNOMUS 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Blood Libel, Picander, Erotic Literature
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Text for st. matthew also crafted by picander (christian friedrich henrici: picander was an attorney, wrote a lot of bach"s texts and erotic literature. Bach removed some anti-semitic elements and gave others musical settings that expressed his personal point of view: that everyone was responsible for the crucifixion. Turba (crowd) choruses, a crowd of people at the time. Done at the end of a funeral. See him-(chorus ii)how?-(chorus i) just like a lamb! But when pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, rather that a much greater disturbance grew, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd and said: I am not guilty for the blood of this just person, see ye to it. His blood come upon us then and on our children. Here at the grave we all sit weeping. And call the in grief as we weep.
