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Instrumental forces for acquired recordings<br />

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Figure 4. Instrumental forces for acquired recordings.<br />

1. 13 recordings (34%) no information or incomplete information was available<br />

2. 2 recordings (5%) featuring 10-15 member orchestra<br />

3. 4 recordings (11%) featuring 16-20 member orchestra<br />

4. 13 recordings (34%) featuring 21-25 member orchestra<br />

5. 3 recordings (8%) featuring 26-30 member orchestra<br />

6. 2 recordings (5%) featuring 31-35 member orchestra<br />

7. 1 recordings (3%) featuring 36-40 member orchestra<br />

One <strong>of</strong> the most interesting choices that conductors make in the St. John Passion<br />

is what continuo instrument, harpsichord or organ, is chosen to accompany the<br />

recitatives. This point will only be addressed slightly since this dissertation looks at the<br />

choruses and chorales and two arias with choral accompaniment. Fabian (2003) attends to<br />

this subject when she writes that nineteenth century scholars and notably Arnold Schering<br />

in the 1920s deemed the <strong>practice</strong> <strong>of</strong> accompanying the narrative recitatives with the<br />

harpsichord as historically inaccurate. 352 Despite scholars‟ advice, against the <strong>practice</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

352 Fabian, Bach Performance Practice, 1945-1975, 60.<br />

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