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.

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