7.5. Possibly the first “simple” four-part chorale harmonization in one of Bach’s cantatas, from Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee, BWV 18, mvt. 5, mm. 1–2:
     Ich bitt, o Herr, aus Herzens Grund,     I pray, oh Lord, from the bottom of my heart,

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