Structure
- Chorus: Wie der Hirsch schreit (As the Hart Longs)
- Aria (soprano): Meine Seele dürstet nach Gott (For my soul thirsteth for God)
- Recitative and aria (soprano): Meine Tränen sind meine Speise (My tears have been my meat) – Denn ich wollte gern hingehen (For I had gone forth most gladly)
- Chorus: Was betrübst du dich, meine Seele (Why, my soul, art thou so vexed?)
- Recitative (soprano): Mein Gott, betrübt ist meine Seele (My God, within me is my soul cast down)
- Quintet (soprano with TTBB): Der Herr hat des Tages verheißen (The Lord hath commanded)
- Final chorus: Was betrübst du dich, meine Seele (Why, my soul, art thou so vexed?)
Read more about this topic: Psalm 42 (Mendelssohn)
Famous quotes containing the word structure:
“Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.”
—Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986)
“If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, “Be tolerant—even of evil.” Logically the next step would be to say to our commonwealth’s criminals, “I disagree that it’s all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion.” Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 2 (1962)