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In the first aria, "Mein Jesu, ziehe mich nach dir" ("My Jesus, draw me after You"),[1] the alto voice is accompanied by an obbligato oboe, which expressively intensifies the text.[29] portrait of the music theorist Johann Mattheson Johann Mattheson, music theorist, 1746 An aria is, according to Johann Mattheson in Der vollkommene Capellmeister (Part II, chapter 13, paragraph 10), "correctly described as a well-composed song, which has its own particular key and meter, is usually divided into two parts, and concisely expresses a great affection. Occasionally it closes with a repetition of the first part, occasionally without it."[35] In this aria, an individual believer requests Jesus to make him follow, even without comprehending where and why. Mincham observes a mood or affekt of "deep involvement and pensive commitment", with the oboe creating "an aura of suffering and a sense of struggling and reaching upwards in search of something indefinable in a way that only music can suggest."[34] 3 The recitative "Mein Jesu, ziehe mich, so werd ich laufen" ("My Jesus, draw me, then I will run")[1] is not a simple secco recitative, but is accompanied by the strings and leans towards an arioso, especially near the end.[29] It is the first movement in a major mode, and illustrates in rapid runs the motion and the running mentione