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    Vox Christi, Latin for Voice of Christ, is a setting of Jesus' words in a vocal work such as a Passion, an Oratorium or a Cantata. Conventionally, for...
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    soprano choir) 2. Mt 26:1–2, with Vox Christi 3. Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen 4. Mt 26:3–13, with Vox Christi, and Turba on Ja nicht auf das...
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  • is the vox Christi, the voice of Christ. According to an early manuscript, the instruments play only in the sinfonia and with the vox Christi, while the...
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  • Thumbnail for Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172
    recitative, in which words spoken by Jesus are sung by the bass as the vox Christi (voice of Christ). A bass aria with trumpets addresses the Trinity, and...
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    Spirit as a comforter. The first announcement is sung by the bass as the vox Christi, the second, in the centre of the work, by the chorus in three fugues...
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  • Thumbnail for Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
    violino piccolo, the soprano represents the Soul and the bass is the vox Christi (voice of Jesus). In a slow siciliano, the violino piccolo illustrates...
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    an aria. The fourth movement is a dialogue between Fear and Christ (vox Christi, sung by a bass), who quotes "Selig sind die Toten" from the Book of...
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  • BWV 88), as Vox Christi solo for bass (e.g. 4th movement of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39), as arioso for Evangelist and Vox Christi (e.g. 4th movement...
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    (Weinachtshistorie, Matthäuspassion, Lukaspassion, Johannespassion). In contrast, the vox Christi, voice of Christ, is always the bass in Bach's works, including several...
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  • viola da gamba still retained; recitatives revised so that now only the vox Christi recitatives have sustained continuo parts). No evidence of version being...
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