Cupido tu doch rühren

Johann Staden’s Cupido tu doch rühren is a five-part German secular song. Its text speaks of love's longing, a desire for reciprocated affection and a hopeful anticipation of joy. The music mirrors this sentiment with delicate interplay between the SSATB voices. Staden, a contemporary of Schütz, was a prolific composer of secular and sacred music in the early Baroque period, and this part-song exemplifies the German Lied tradition of the time, with its clear melodic lines and expressive harmony.