The work is scored for vocal soloists, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, a four part choir SATB, and an orchestra of two flauto traverso (Ft), two oboes (Ob), two oboes da caccia (Oc), two violins, viola (Va), and basso continuo.
Among the motets, his masterpiece is perhaps In ecclesiis, for four soloists, four-part choir, violin, three cornets, two trombones, and organ, these forces pitted against one another in an endless variety of combinations.
The festival continues on Oct. 7 with music for a 12-part choir and Mr. Braxton's 12+3tet; and concludes on Oct. 8 with the premiere of two acts from his opera "Trillium J," featuring 12 singers and a 35-piece orchestra.
In his Jungfrew, ich het ein' Bitt' an euch (Maiden, I have a Request for You), Demantius allows one four-part choir to represent the girl and the other the boy in a conversation full of innocent affection and honest courtship, the two groups joining at the end to sing goodnight.
A four-part choir is indicated by SATB, a five-part choir by SSATB.
The five-part choir is accompanied only by the continuo as a walking bass.
The music is scored for three vocal soloists, a four-part choir, oboe, strings and continuo.
The first movement is scored for five-part choir, woodwinds and strings.
(A joyful radiance reaches me from God) is illustrated by a violin part added to the four-part choir.
The cantata is scored for four soloists—soprano, alto, tenor and bass a four-part choir, two oboes d'amore, two violins, viola and basso continuo.
The composition saves words for a finale that uses all four types of church music contrapuntally as a four-part choir sings the Ave Maria.
