"J. Pachelbel: Magnificat Secundi Toni" genre: Baroque
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	Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), one of the major keyboard composers of the late seventeenth century and a link between the southern and central German schools, having studied in Vienna and finally settled in his native Nuremberg, composed these Magnificat fugues while organist of St. Sebald, Nuremberg's wealthiest church, where he was employed from 1695 on. For Hauptwerk sampled organ and John Mccoy's Harpsichord.
	Credits: Martin Dyde for Hauptwerk: A Virtual Organ Project
	Story Behind the Song Unlike many other organ settings of the Magnificat (Canticle of the Virgin) that treated alternate verses of the chant, in the tradition of Renaissance vocal settings, Pachelbel's Magnificat fugues are preludial in nature, like his fugues based on chorales; they are brief intonations to establish the pitch for the singers, and thus occur in the contemporary equivalent of the eight different "tones" or modes of plainchant. Only a minority of them, however, use the chant formula, the majority being based on freely invented themes. Lyrics German: Meine Seele erhebet den Herrn, und mein Geist freuet sich Gottes meines Heilands. Er denket der Barmhertzigkeit, und hilft seinem Dieneer Israel auf. English: My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my Spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy. --St. Luke 1:46-47

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