poetry set by Bach, both sacred and secular compositions. The complete 1728–29 cantata cycle was republished in Volume III of the Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte, pp. 79–188, but now starting with the cantata libretto for Advent I, and with 1729 as the year indicated for the cycle. The volume contained several texts set by Bach, including secular cantatas and the libretto for the St Mark Passion, BWV 247, which Bach had set in 1731. Volume III was reprinted in 1737. After the early 1730s there is only one extant Bach composition with a libretto that also appeared in one of Picander's poetry collections: the Peasant Cantata of 1742. Cantatas An ideal cycle including all cantatas for Advent and Lent, but without counting Passion music for Good Friday nor music for the installation of a new council, would have 73 cantatas. Picander's 1728–29 cycle has 70. The difference is accounted for thus: No separate cantata for Palm Sunday: for this feast day Picander proposes to use the same cantata text as for Advent I. No (separate) cantata for Reformation Day. In the cycle proposed for 1728–29 the feast of Reformation Day coincided with Trinity XXIII (31 October 1728), however without Picander making any reference to that feast day in the title of the cantata for that Sunday. No cantata for Trinity XXVII, which didn't occur in 1728. For all other possible occasions from St. John's Day 24 June 1728 to Trinity IV 4 July 1729 Picander provided a specific cantata text, whether or not the occasion occurred in the intended period, and whether or not providing music for the occasion was customary in Leipzig. Apart from the text for the Annunciation cantata which was placed after the text for Judica Sunday as last libretto for the third section, the sequence of cantata texts as printed in 1728 follows the occurrence of occasions for this period, with the Christmas I and Epiphany VI cantatas inserted at appropriate points. Known settings of the cycle's librettos by Bach (or his son Carl Philipp Emanuel) in the 1728–29 period: (for Trinity XXI): Ich habe meine Zuversicht, BWV 188 (for Christmas): Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, BWV 197a (incomplete) (for New Year): Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm, BWV 171. At least three movements are parodies. (for Epiphany III): Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe, BWV 156 (for Estomihi): Sehet, wir