Talk:Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51

Voice and purpose?
sorry for my poor english. "There has been some speculation as to the identity of the singer for whom Bach wrote the cantata and for exactly what purpose it was written; women did not sing in church in Bach's day, yet the part is considered too complicated for most boy sopranos to capably handle." It is extremly difficoult to sing it for boys at the age of 13, 14, but oldest boys can do it. Problem is in puberty and loosing soprano posibilites. Boys at the time of Bach could sing for longer time with unchanged voices as puberty is faster now. There was much more boys at the age 15, 16 who could sing still soprano as todays Clint van Der Linde or Alois M. So it can be a solution of this problem...
 * The passage you questioned is some years old and not sourced. To be improved with a source, thanks for pointing it out. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Trio
If the source calls it trio, two violins and continuo, not counting people playing, but parts played, - can we call it trio? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:43, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * If the source is German then no :-) Now kidding aside, this seems to be the same story as Martin Geck calling the four part accompaniment of Christ in St Matthew a "string quartet". What you can do in German you can't necessarily do in English. As far as I know, in English (and French), the usage is what I described in my last edit summary to this article. But to be absolutely certain ask Antandrus, he will know the finer points of terminology and the differences between German and English usage. Contact Basemetal   here  00:02, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Infobox?
I suggest something like this, imagine the picture of the trumpeter, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Done, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:40, 14 September 2015 (UTC)