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MICHEL BOUVARD & FRANÇOIS ESPINASSE
Independently of this compositional device, there
are sometimes other elements that connect someof
these cantatas. For example, the aria from Cantata
BWV 68 mentioned earlier is closely modelled on
no.13, ‘Weil die wollenreichenHerden’, of the ‘Hunt’
Cantata BWV 208. In the latter work, however,
it was the aria for the deity of flocks and herds
Pales, ‘Schafe können sicher weiden’ (familiar in
English as ‘Sheep may safely graze’), that André
Isoir decided to arrange, again expanding the
basic material. The realisation of a continuo part
and sometimes the invention of a countermelody
to the solo part add substance on the organ to this
pastoral movement, which originally combined
two recorders with the vocal line and the basso
continuo.