[131] Durch Adam's Fall ist ganz verderbt. Buxtehude employed fifths to symbolize this descent.

[132] Organists often played the sortie (postlude) in the form of a chaconne, with full organ (see Mattheson: "Der vollkommene Capellmeister," and Becker, "Rathgeber für Organisten"). The prelude to the chorale "Heut' triumphiret Gottes Sohn" is conceived in the same manner.

[133] In the collection Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesänge, Balletti, Galliarden und Intraden mit 4, 5, 6, 7, und 8 Stimmen. 1601, Nürnberg, bei Kaufmann.

[134] O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.—Cf. chorale in St. Matthew Passion.

[135] Compare that chorale with this fragment of a chorale by Böhm, Vater unser im Himmelreich:

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[136] P. vi, and vii. B.-G. xxv, vol. ii, 3rd part.

[137] For example, upon the melodies "Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr'" (several versions), "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" and "Herr Jesus Christ, dich zu uns wend."

[138] Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland.