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    Kindleinwiegen (Rocking the Christchild) is a Christian Nativity tradition which can be traced back to the Liturgical dramas of the later Medieval period...
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    around Christ's birth, and were embedded in an old tradition named Kindleinwiegen (rocking of the cradle). As these laudes were to be performed with a...
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  • what Spitta wrote on the topic. For example, when such paper mentions Kindleinwiegen the concept is hardly ever explained, while it is assumed to be background...
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  • the baby Jesus and his mother Mary. It comes from the tradition of Kindleinwiegen. In eight stanzas of two lines each, the angels are requested to come...
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    one angel (A, B), then by the multitude (C), finally a cradle song (Kindleinwiegen, D). In Bach's autograph, the four movements are grouped at the back...
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