Bach St Matthews Passion

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4 Chorales
- Receive me, my redeemer
  - No 21
  - E Major
  - identical harmony to here would I stand beside me but in different keys
- O sacred head, surrounded by crown
  - No 63
  - Respse to and they spit on him - sung by the evangelist in no 62
  - High register
  - React to the humiliation of Christ
- Be near me, Lord when dying
  - No 72
  - Ends in tonal ambiguity
    - Points believers to their death and the terror and uncertainty of It
  - Chramatic and expressive setting
  - Death, anguish, pain and woe
    - Use of Tritone
  - low register: A sense of darkness
- Here would I stand beside me
  - No 23
  - Eb Major
No 22
- Peter's denial foretold by Christ
  - Chramatic A Flat note on word "Die" both expressive and points towards Eb Major modulation
  - Shift of tonality shows unsettled mood of the disciples