This page contains what I will call Schemelli 4-voice chorales, that is, my own 4-voice realizations of the 75 songs for solo voice to which Bach added figured bass, as commissioned by publisher Georg Schemelli in 1736. Bach and Schemelli expected a harpsichord or organ continuo accompaniment according to the figures published, so four-voiced realization was not the intent (although others, apparently including Bach students, and musicians such as the late Sir David Willcocks, have done so, too), and thus sometimes minor modifications to either voice or bass are necessary, so these are not the BGA (Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausgabe) scores.

Realizing a four-voice chorale texture from a melody and bass with continuo figures is not the same task as realizing the latter as continuo per se. In the continuo case, three needed voices each have a degree of freedom, while constrained be consistent with and contrapuntally independent from the bass. In the chorale-building case, the two needed voices have only two degrees of freedom, and must be contrapuntally consistent with not only the bass, but the extant voice. This requires a different technique, and is (of course) more akin to chorale-composing than figured-bass realizing.

Instructions: If you click on a score-thumbnail in the right column of the table, you will arrive on an interactive play page of the score where you can listen to and/or download the score files (orange buttons; bottom left). You can use the mouse and/or space bar for play back and all the arrow keys on your keyboard (← ↑ → ↓) to move through the score and it will still play in sync! You can use the headers in the table below, by clicking on it (▲ ▼), to order the table either alphabetically (on number; 1st column) or on BWV number (3rd column). The melody title index is available only when ordered alphabetically and will offer a shortcut to a chorales starting with a chosen letter from that index. You can enter a number in the white space below, press 'Enter' (on your keyboard) or the orange 'OK' button right beside it, and go directly to the play page of that score.