Some More Cleaning

The opening chorale (bars 1-3) had a weak harmonic progression, namely I-V-I-vi-iii-v. Changing the last two chords to I7-IV gives it a better direction and an appropriate plagal cadence.



Bars 4-7, the instrumental interlude, also were scrutinized. The voice leading in the viola part was cleaned up a bit and the harmony in bars 6 and 7 were clarified to a more definite cadence.



The strings in bars 8-10 also lacked direction. Keeping them all below the soprano line led to excessive parallel fifths and octaves so the first violin moved up to join the narrator mostly (some rhythmic exceptions). The Puritan gets the plagal treatment in bar 9.