Tim Dickinson wrote: >>I've just finished listening to a budget Seraphim recording of Bach's >>cantata "Wachet auf, rufft uns die stimme" BWV 140. The fourth movement, >>the chorale "Zion hort die Wachter singen", is set to very familiar music >>that I know from some other Bach composition but can't quite place. and Kevin Sutton answered >This tune is a Lutheran chorale melody that you have probably sung in >church. It is sometimes set to "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee" or "Wake, >Awake for Night Is Flying." Dependant on the text used, this tune crops up >throughout the liturgical year. Moreover, Bach's chorale-prelude BWV645, the first of the "Schuebler" set, is the composer's arrangement of that chorus. "Joel Lazar" <[log in to unmask]>