The Effect of

... Philip Loos Jeffery Thomas T.A. Steve Lehning The Effect of the Lyrical and Musical Reciprocation in Bach Cantatas 106 and 80 Johann Sebastian Bach was an 18th century composer, not a theologian, yet there are few men in the history of the world who have so thoroughly captured God's character and even fewer still who have so passionately impressed that character upon men's hearts. While the music or lyrics of his cantatas alone are often enough to stir a man to action or reduce him to tears, it is the relationship between the two that truly seems to reflect all that encompasses God's greatness. Two of Bach's most renowned cantatas, "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" (BWV 106) and "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (BWV 80), are prime examples of this. The two have few similarities and yet they seem to bookend much of who God is. With these pieces, Bach

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