Ex. 7-1: Deposuit

From Bach's Magnificat in D major (BWV 243). The first version was likely composed for 2 July 1723 — Bach's first feast day after leaving his court position to become Thomaskantor in Leipzig. A revised version in D major followed around 1733; the key was changed to suit the natural trumpets, which were usually tuned in D in Saxony.

"Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles" (He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly) is the tenth movement, a tenor aria.