You can find a live music event to contrast with The Music：Bach，Cantata No.4 “Christ lag in Todesbanden”（1707)
Requirements: please again choose a live music event to watch and write to me about, make sure to choose music that is NOT from the textbook or written by composers from the textbook, please make sure to INCLUDE musical comparisons to cited pieces FROM the textbook. and also, please find music that is DIFFERENT from what you listened to and wrote about for your Concert Response #1 and #2.
Class Material：Sacred vocal music of the Baroque era exhibits much diversity in style and form. Most of it was written directly for church services, and so its style and form depend first of all on whether those services were of the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, or Anglican rite. Every service includes places where music is appropriate, or even specified by the liturgy. In principle, each place gives rise to a different musical genre.
There are, however, two general factors that are important for all Baroque sacred-music genres—oratorio and passion, cantata, Mass, and motet. One of these factors is traditional in origin; the other is specific to the Baroque era.
As cantor, or music director, of Leipzig’s biggest church (the Thomaskirche, or Church of St. Thomas), Bach was required to produce cantatas for the entire year—a stupendous task that kept him very busy indeed for years after he was appointed. Over two hundred cantatas by Bach have survived, each of them with several movements. Most are sacred works, but he also wrote some secular cantatas for court or civic celebrations and for functions at the University of Leipzig.
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