Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Companion

How to Search

Searching

Click on the magnifying glass on the right side of the screen title, enter your search terms, and hit the return key to open the search window. The search window offers four options:

Searching Using Metadata and Lenses

Metadata are the numerous attributes assigned to every essay page which facilitate searches within the Scalar program and enable essays to be found by search engines on the World Wide Web.

Metadata fields are organized in families or "ontologies." Ontologies are developed for many different purposes, such as curation of art exhibits, bibliographies, etc. The metadata scheme for this digital edition draws upon a number of different ontologies.

The fourth option on the search window makes use of metadata. Choosing option four opens two option dropdowns to open on the search window to the right of the "Search for" field. You can choose an ontology in the first, and set the field in the second. Searching metadata is more precise than a full-text search because the results include only those essays that are explicitly tagged; otherwise extraneous results are likely due to incidental mentions of the search term in content.

Lenses

Lenses offer a flexible and powerful way of interrogating the essays. Here, you can set up multiple filters using metadata, as well as sort the results by a metadata field. You can modify lenses but cannot save the changes. As an example I've set up a lens that displays that cantatas Bach composed at Leipzig that use texts by Georg Christian Lehms, an author Bach encountered at Weimar over a decade earlier. Go to the compass icon on the left side of the page header, and click on "Lenses." You'll find the sample lens beneath the heading "Public Lenses."

Metadata Dictionary

What follows is a metadata dictionary, outlining the metadata scheme that underlies this digital edition. Here, the properties appear in ontology:field pairs. Beneath the Ontology:Field pair appears a brief description, and below the description one or more sample search terms. Search terms are not case-sensitive.

dcterms:identifier

BWV3 Number
BWV 140
BWV 207.1
 

bibo:identifier

Bach Compendium ID String
BC A 166
BC G 37

vra:composer

Johann Sebastian Bach

vra:author

Libretto or Chorale Author
CF Henrici
Philipp Nicolai

dcterms:description

Brief phrase including genre, librettist, occasion, date of first performance; larger context; city or court
Chorale cantata on hymn by Philipp Nicolai. Twenty-seventh Sunday After Trinity. First performed 11/25/1731 in Leipzig 

vra:partOf

Larger Context Label, e.g., Chorale Cantata Annual Cycle; Christmas Oratorio
Chorale Cantata Annual Cycle
Christmas Oratorio

bibo:translationOf

Complete Bibliographic Citation of Original German Essay
Hans-Joachim Schulze, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 / BC A 166" in <i>Die Bach Kantaten: Einführungen zu sämtlichen Kantaten Johann Sebastian Bachs</i>, (Leipzig: Evangelisches Verlagsanstalt 2006), p. 509

dcterms:title

German Title & BWV3 Number
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140

dcterms:contributor

Person responsible for modifications to chorale or poetic text

dcterms:date

Date of First Performance YYYY-MM-DD
1731-11-25

dcterms:temporal

Date of First Performance MM-DD-YYYY
11-25-1731

dcterms:available

Summer 1707 to summer 1708 
Between 1711 and 1717

bibo:translator

James A. Brokaw II

dcterms.subject

Human Readable Church Sunday or Holiday Title; for secular works the genre
Twenty-seventh Sunday After Trinity

dcterms:coverage

Sortable Sunday or Holiday Label
10Trinity27

dcterms:audience

Non Calendar or Secular Occasion / Patron Label
Professor of Law Gottlieb Kortte

dcterms:type

Solo Cantata
Dialogue cantata
Chorale Cantata Per Omnes Versus;

iptc:city

Leipzig
Weimar
Weissenfels

iptc:ReleaseDate

Period within larger context (e.g., Leipzig First Annual Cycle; Weimar after Palm Sunday 1714)

dcterms:spatial

decimal latitude, decimal longitude
51.340199, 12.360103
 

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