ICH HALTE TREULICH STILL

Composer (attributed to): Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Itali… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: ICH HALTE TREULICH STILL
Composer (attributed to): Johann Sebastian Bach (1736)
Meter: 6.6.8.6 D
Incipit: 53156 55234 32123
Key: D Major
Source: Schemelli Gesangbuch (1736)
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • 150 Last Verse Harmonies: For Use with the Hymn Books of the Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Other Free Churches
    Composer/Editor Richard Lloyd
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 59
  • 200 New Last Verses
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 91
  • Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: Volume II
    Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1986) pp. 109
  • Creative Hymn-Singing: A Collection of Hymn Tunes and Texts with notes on their origin, idiom, and performance
    Composer/Editor Alice Parker
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1976) pp. 35

Organ Solo

  • Mosaics: Organ Music for Worship and Concert
    Composer/Editor Lawrence P. Schreiber
    Published By: The Sacred Music Press (2019) pp. 22
  • Hymn Prelude Library Volume Five Tunes HI: Lutheran Service Book
    Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Philip Gehring
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2014) pp. 89
  • The Master Organ Works of Jan Bender Volume 2: Chorale Preludes for Organ (A - L)
    Composer/Editors Jan Bender; David Fienen
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2005) pp. 50
  • Interpretations Based on Hymn-Tunes Book VI: For Organ
    Composer/Editor David M. Cherwien
    Published By: Summa Productions (1987) pp. 10
  • Hymntune Sketches: For Beginning Organists
    Composer/Editor Ronald A. Nelson
    Published By: Augsburg Publishing House (1963) pp. 10

Media

Instances

Instances (1 - 17 of 17)
TextPage Scan

Christian Worship (1993) #604

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Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #270

TextPage Scan

Common Praise #518

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Community of Christ Sings #2

Community of Christ Sings #638

Hymns and Psalms #325

Hymns and Psalms #680

TextPage Scan

Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #270

Tune InfoTextPage Scan

Rejoice in the Lord #148

Audio

Small Church Music #1210

The Book of Praise #491

ScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #1714

The New Century Hymnal #404

The Presbyterian Hymnal #418

Text

Together in Song #555

Text

Together in Song #604

Voices United #295

Include 20 pre-1979 instances
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