Musical conversation

Spouse: So did you get any new stuff in choir practice?
Me: Yeah. We have a pretty nice setting of that "Set me as a seal upon your heart" thing and a "Surely he hath borne our griefs" by a contemporary of Bach's, only I've forgotten his name.
Spouse: [offers several names]
Me: No, none of those.
Spouse: [shrugs] He had a lot of contemporaries.
Me: Yeah. It's something we have in common with Bach. Actually we have even more contemporaries than he did.
Spouse: There, you see? Progress.