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1-beholding.nwc 1: Lord, beholding Thy dread passion
2-feast.nwc 2: Now the feast of unleaven'd bread drew nigh
3-souls-1.nwc 3: To save our souls
3-souls-2.nwc 3: To save our souls (alternative version)
4-Jesus.nwc 4: And Jesus came out
5-temptation.nwc 5: Lead us not into temptation
6-spake.nwc 6: And while He yet spake
7-Forgive.nwc 7: Forgive us, Lord, our trespasses
8-priests.nwc 8: Then Jesus said to the high priests
9-giv'st.nwc 9: Lord, who giv'st Thyself for me
10-held-10a-prophesy.nwc 10: And the men that held Jesus
10a: Prophesy, who is he?
11-many-11a-Christ.nwc 11: And many other things spake they
11a: Art Thou the Christ?
12-But-12a-Son.nwc 12: But He said unto them
12a: Art Thou the Son of God?
13-And-13a-Further.nwc 13: And He said unto them
13a: What need we any further witness?
14-Jesus-1.nwc 14: Jesus, who for our salvation
14-Jesus-2.nwc 14: Jesus, who for our salvation (alternative version)
15-coy-15a-man-15b-Pilate.nwc 15: And the whole company
15a: We have found this man
15b: And Pilate asked him
16-Christ.nwc 16: Christ, our Saviour, God and King
17-Pil-17a-nat-17b-Gal.nwc 17: And Pilate said
17a: He stirreth up the nation
17b: And when Pilate heard of Galilee
18-Lamb.nwc 18: The Lamb is dumb
19-chief-19a-away.nwc 19: And the chief priests
19a: Away with this man
20-spake-20a-Crucify-20b-third.nwc 20: And Pilate spake unto them
20a: Crucify Him
20b: And Pilate said the third time
21-Foul-1.nwc 21: Foul wrong, by hate engendered
21-Foul-2.nwc 21: Foul wrong, by hate engendered (alternative version)
22-led-Him.nwc 22: And as they led Him away
23-Gracious.nwc 23: Gracious Father, hear Thy Son
24,24a-garments.nwc 24: And parting his garments among them
24a: He hath saved others
25-mock-25a-King-25b-super.nwc 25: And the soldiers also mocked Him
25a: If Thou be King of Judah
25b: And a superscription
26-Sacred-1.nwc 26: O Sacred Head, sore wounded
26-Sacred-2.nwc 26: O Sacred Head, sore wounded (alternative version)
27-malefactors.nwc 27: One of the malefactors
28-remember.nwc 28: In Thy love remember me
29-sixth.nwc 29: And it was about the sixth hour
30-beneath.nwc 30: Dear Lord, beneath Thy Cross I bow
31-O Jesu.nwc 31: O Jesu Christ
32-finished.nwc 32: It is finished
There are no text/lyrics; these Files were generated purely for Choral Rehearsing purposes (using a published piano-reduction Score), and so don't look pretty even though they should sound reasonable (though that depends very much on your hardware/software; mine is a Soundblaster AWE64 Gold). Voice-emphasised Midi Files of the whole work can be downloaded for free from my Website (above).
The Site also contains Midi Files for several rather more modern Composers, for which NWC versions may be available.
The present Files relate to a shortened and simplified English-language Score version of the Work as prepared by Rev. A Hastings Kelk and J Michael Diak and published by Paterson (a copy of which Score is available from Boosey & Hawkes).
There is an excellent performance of the full Work in its entirety by the Alsfelder Vokalensemble, under Wolfgang Helbich, on YouTube starting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNaJ6lb0RjY. There does not seem to be any published recording of the present shortened and simplified version. If anyone knows of such a published (and freely available) version, please let me know its location.
This Work was originally attributed to Bach because a publication source was a manuscript copy of the Score partially in Bach's own hand. Subsequently, however, this attribution was questioned, and it was then thought likely that the Work was composed by Johann Melchior Molter. Even this, though, is now doubted, and so the Work now appears in the catalogues under the heading "apocryphal" or "anonymous" (see the Wikipedia entry).