Tune by J.S.Bach, choir

[coulonnus]

As a member of the WIMA project http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:WIMA I am about to transfer this piece (choir):
Il fait danser les mondes typeset (arranged?) by Daniel Taupin. http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/ ... faitda.pdf

But the tune seems familiar to me. Does it come from a Cantata or another major Bach's work? What is the title in English? In German?

[Molinarius]

This tune is indeed to be found in a major work by Bach: In the St.-John-Passion, Nr. 26 with the text: "In meines Herzens Grunde"..., which is the third verse of "Valet will ich dir geben", a funeral song. See http://www.bach-cantatas.com/CM/Valet-w ... -dir-geben. The French text has a very different character: it is praising God and his creation, but it fits well to the optimistic upwards going melody.

[coulonnus]

Thanks. This is indeed the same tune. I'll think of an upload with the File Description: variation-or-transcription-or-arrangement-or-typesetting
etc. on the imslp page of this Passion.