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       The first movement of Bach’s Cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140) on the radio. Makes my brain go slightly wobbly with excitement, everything going on in this movement.I could write a long essay about all the excitement, but I’ll confine myself to the observation that the slow chorale melody in the sopranos has its time moving at a slower pace than the music around it, and that music is organised into several layers which themselves have different paces. Not all performances evince this layering effect. If you (a treble singer) are strongly counting your long notes in groups of three beats *at the speed of the other layers*, you have lost this feeling of slowness, and I can hear it. You need to do it with a slow metabolic rate (or something) so it sounds like notes in a slow speed rather than long notes in a fast speed. Go give it a listen. Here’s one at a good speed (better than some at the above thing).https://youtu.be/RfAzF-CGQAM #Bach #classicalmusic