Talk:Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a

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 * (contemporary opera) That sounds like modern-day opera but is linked to Baroque. I think you mean opera of that period. Do not see it mentioned in reference. Jmar67 (talk) 10:06, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Is there another word for the latest fashion in opera of his time? Modern-day opera can't influence him, no? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:12, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The word you want is "contemporaneous". I prefer the existing expression "opera of that period" in this case, however. Jmar67 (talk) 16:51, 15 October 2018 (UTC)


 * (composition of new recitatives to the 1724 text) You would set music to a text but compose it for, or based on, a text. Jmar67 (talk) 14:34, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * understand --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:12, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Cöthen
Should we say - and how - that it was Cöthen at Bach's time? See image of Leopold. We could render the complete inscription of that image, for example. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:22, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Have updated footnotes. In the inscription it looks like "Cothen". The article for Köthen refers to the original name "Cothene". Jmar67 (talk) 21:46, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The "original name" was much before Bach's time. - Fine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:59, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The inscription is clearly Cöthen, with two little dots. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Birthday and New Year
At some point I understood that this was written for his birthday but not performed until the new year. Now it seems another one was his birthday present. Hope I was wrong. Jmar67 (talk) 18:03, 25 October 2018 (UTC)


 * What made you think it was for his birthday? Because that should be clarified ;) - The lead has New Years's Day, no? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:10, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Have to look at older version. When I first started editing, that was my impression. May just have been a false assumption due to the fact that 10 Dec and the new year are close together. Jmar67 (talk) 18:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Not for Bach ;) - In Leipzig, he would have composed a cantata for each 25 Dec, 26 Dec, 27 Dec and possible a Sunday between that and the New Year, and that New Year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:05, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I apparently also inferred that the congratulations were for his birthday. Wishes for the new year would not strike me as being congratulatory in the same sense of "Congratulations, Leopold, on being a year older". Interesting point. Let's not spend too much time discussing it. Jmar67 (talk) 19:20, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Even before you said that, I removed one "congratulatory" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:22, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * In the cantata for his birthday (just put expanding it on my to-do-list), it says that Heaven considered Anhalt's glory and fortune by Leopold being born, no less. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 25 October 2018 (UTC)