Meine Seele hört im Sehen (German Aria No.6), hymn for soprano & continuo, HWV 207
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Meine Seele hört im Sehen (German Aria No.6), hymn for soprano & continuo, HWV 207
- Date: ca. 1724 -1726
- Composer: George Frederick Handel
- Period: Baroque (1600-1749)
Review
This is the sixth of a set of nine songs that Handel wrote to the German-language texts of Barthold Heinrich Brockes from his collection Irdisches Vergnuegen in Gott (Contentment on Earth through God). The tone of the text is religious in an easygoing manner. All of these songs are in ABA form with vocal declamation that is lyrical, sometimes melismatic, and never virtuosic. The instrumentation of the accompaniment is flexible, and the performers are allowed to choose whichever instruments are appropriate and available for the continuo and instrumental obbligato.The vocal line in this song, whose title translates as "My Soul Hears through Seeing, " holds forth in a pleasant duple meter over a "walking" bass line in the continuo. The text deals with the synesthesia of hearing things usually thought of as visual. The obbligato instrument sometimes answers the singer and sometimes harmonizes with him. The dotted rhythms of the obbligato instrument sometimes show up in the vocal part. ~ Aaron Rabushka, Rovi
Albums with Complete Performances of the Work
| Meine Seele erlebt den Herren, motet | |
| Meine Seele rühmt und priest, sacred cantata for voice, recorder, oboe, violin & continuo (formerly BWV 189) |
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