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"East to West" is a contemporary Christian song lasting four minutes and 26 seconds. [3] It was written in common time in the key of F ♯ minor at a tempo of 73 beats per minute. The vocal range in the song ranges from the low note of D 4 to the high note of F ♯ 5. [2]
The work shared material with a secular cantata which premiered the same month. Ihr Häuser des Himmels, ihr scheinenden Lichter, BWV 193a, was a dramma per musica (drama for music) composed for the name day of Augustus II the Strong on 3 August 1727. Movements 1, 3 and 5 of Ihr Tore zu Zion are probably a parody of the secular work. However ...
Neal Coomer and Jay DeMarcus met in Cleveland, Tennessee, at Lee College (now Lee University) and decided to form a Christian pop group along the lines of Level 42 or Go West. They released two albums, East to West in 1993 and North of the Sky, in 1995, which hit No. 16 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart that same year. [1]
The cantata is opened by a sinfonia for concertante organ and orchestra, [3] probably the final movement of a lost concerto composed in Köthen, the model for the Concerto II in E major, BWV 1053, for harpsichord. Two weeks before, Bach had used the two other movements of that concerto in his cantata Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169. [2]
Christoph Graupner: Die sieben Worte des Heilands am Kreuz, cantata cycle, Darmstadt (1743) Joseph Haydn: Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (The seven last words of our Redeemer on the cross, 1787) Francisco Javier García Fajer: Septem ultima verba christi in cruce (1787), Latin oratorio
The opening chorus with the full orchestra is the "centre of gravity" of the cantata. [3] It opens with an introduction marked "adagio", played by the strings doubled by the oboes. Then a fugue begins, two instrumental entries are followed by choral entries, a climax is reached in an entry of the first trumpet.
Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Third Sunday after Easter, called Jubilate.The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle of Peter, "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man" (1 Peter 2:11–20), and from the Gospel of John, Jesus announcing his second coming in the so-called Farewell Discourse, saying "your sorrow shall be turned into joy" (John 16:16–23).
The cantata ends with a chorale, stanza 10 of Paul Gerhardt's hymn " Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn". Bach festively scored the seven-movement cantata, for two vocal soloists (tenor and bass), a four-part choir and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two horns, two recorders, two oboes da caccia, strings and basso continuo. All recitatives are ...