The welcoming gesture from the secular cantata seems appropriate for the expressed sentiment.

His other works include two oratorios, six trio sonatas, and four secular cantatas.

He had no responsibility for church music, therefore only secular cantatas have survived.

The work shared material with a secular cantata which premiered the same month.

Many secular cantatas were composed for events in the nobility.

It was likely based on an earlier secular cantata that is no longer extant.

The exuberant first movement was derived from the final movement of the secular cantata.

During this period, he composed motets for church performance as well as secular cantatas.

It was in Leipzig that he composed the bulk of his religious and secular cantatas.

In addition, Bach wrote a number of secular cantatas, usually for civic events such as council inaugurations.