Dorset Bach Cantata Club
INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHIVE
The database lists all 216 of the main cycles of sacred and secular cantatas. Other choral works will be added at a later date. We list cantatas with:
BWV NUMBER, TITLE, INTENDED USE, FIRST PERFORMANCE BY DBCC and Number of TIMES PERFORMED by DBCC
The KEY EXPLAINING INTENDED USE [“INTENT”]
ADS Advent Sunday
ANNUN Annunciation
AS Ascension Day
BIR Birthday Cantata
CC Circumcision
CCS Sunday after the Circumcision
CONG Congratulations
COF Coffee Cantata
COU Council Election
EA4 Easter -
ED Easter Day
EP1 Epiphany 1st Sunday
FNR Funeral
HOM Homage to patron
MD Music Drama (Secular)
NS Not Specified
PALM Palm Sunday
PEAS Peasant Cantata
PUR Purification of the BVM
QUINQ Quinquagesima
RF Reformation Festival
SEPT Septuagesima
SEXAG Sexagesima
SJD St John's Day
SMD St Michael's Day
SUN AS Sunday after Ascension Day
T1 Trinity 1st Sunday after
TS Trinity Sunday
VIS Visitation (BVM)
WED Wedding
WM Whit Monday
WS Whit Sunday
WT Whit Tuesday
XD Christmas Day
XD3 3rd day of Christmas
XDS 1st Sunday of Christmas
It is planned to add more information to the database in due course. The list provided here gives some idea of how we have spent the last fifty years.
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