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Book SynopsisExploring Bach's enduring importance
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Classical Net Review "This is a really significant collection of essays, first-rate in terms of scholarship and the new perspectives they bring to known issues, as well as in their introduction of new facets of study. Anyone interested in Bach, his music, and the contexts of the period, will want to secure a copy of this exemplary volume."--Robin A. Leaver, author of
Luther's Liturgical Music: Principles and ImplicationsTable of ContentsPreface ix
Abbreviations xi
BEFORE BACH A Master Teacher Revealed: Johann Pachelbel's
Deutliche Anweisung 3
BY KATHRYN WELTER
From the House of Aaron to the House of Johann Sebastian: Old Testament Roots for the Bach Family Tree 15
BY MARY DALTON GREER
BACH'S VOCAL MUSIC Combinatorial Modeling in the Chorus Movement of Cantata 24,
Ein ungefarbt Gemute 35
BY ALEXANDER J. FISHER
Choral Unison in J. S. Bach's Vocal Music 53
BY DANIEL R. MELAMED
You Say
Sabachthani and I Say
Asabthani: A St. Matthew Passion Puzzle 61
BY MICHAEL OCHS
Sein Segen fliesst daher wie ein Strom, BWV Anh. I 14: A Source for Parodied Arias in the B-Minor Mass? 69
BY WILLIAM H. SCHEIDE
BACH CIRCLE Johann Friedrich Schweinitz, "A Disciple of the Famous Herr Bach in Leipzig" 81
BY HANS-JOACHIM SCHULZE
Johann Christian Bach and the Church Symphony 89
BY JEN-YEN CHEN
BACH'S INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Scribes, Engravers, and Notational Styles: The Final Disposition of Bach's Art of Fugue 111
BY GREGORY G. BUTLER
Notes on J. S. Bach and Basso Continuo Realization 125
BY TON KOOPMAN
Music for "Cavaliers et Dames": Bach and the Repertoire of His Collegium Musicum 135
BY GEORGE B. STAUFFER
A Print of
Clavieriibung 1 from J. S. Bach's Personal Library 157
BY ANDREW TALLE
AFTER BACH Carl Reinecke's Performance of Mozart's
Larghetto and the Nineteenth-Century Practice of Quantitative Accentuation 171
BY ROBERT HILL
"Grand Miscellaneous Acts": Observations on Oratorio Performance in London after Haydn 181
BY MARK RISINGER
Back from B-A-C-H: Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C Major 191
BY DOUGLASS SEATON
Contributors 207
Index 211
