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Johann Sebastian Bach: Great Man of Music (Rookie Biographies)

Carol Greene

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A biography of the prolific eighteenth-century composer and organist who created some of the world's greatest instrumental and religious music.

The Lutheran Chorales in the Organ Works of J.S. Bach

Mark S. Bighley

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This is not a book that has musical notes! Words only! 1 out of 5 stars.
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I guess it makes a difference what you are looking for, but if you are looking for a book to play an instrument to, then this is not it. Words only! Words are in German and English.

The importance of text 4 out of 5 stars.
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The point of this published dissertation was to translate the German text to English so English-speaking people could better understand the chorales. How is one supposed to register, interpret, and convey the music meaningfully if there is no knowledge of one of the most important aspects of the chorale melodies - the TEXT! This is a very useful book in providing textural nuance to the music.

Important Chorale Texts 5 out of 5 stars.
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A wonderful reference not just for organists but for all musicians interested in the study of the Lutheran chorale preludes. Dr. Bighley's literal translations from German to English without the use of rhyme give more meaning to the chorale text for affections, proper organ registrations and a proper baroque performace.
exp: Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot'
"These are the holy Ten Commandments which our Lord God gave to us through Moses, his true servant, high on Mount Sinai. Kyrie eleison."

Notes on Bach: 20 Crucial Works (Notes on...)

Conrad Wilson

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The "Notes on ..." series by distinguished music critic Conrad Wilson illuminates the music of some of history's greatest composers in relation to their private lives. In each volume Wilson selects twenty crucial works of a given composer, discusses these masterpieces with insight and verve, and tells why these particular works are fundamental to understanding the composer.
Wilson's vast musical expertise and succinct, polished prose style permeate these pages. Meant for any general reader interested in music, these guidebooks are ideal for dipping into as well as reading straight through.
For many music lovers, Bach is a perpetually sober and serious composer, frowning out of pictures on book and CD covers. Wilson reminds listeners that one who only heard Bach's music might imagine him as vivacious, even romantic, and shows why Bach continues to intrigue and influence the music scene.

J. S. Bach's Clavier-Ubung III: The Making of a Print, with a Companion Study of the Canonic Variations on Von Himmel hoch BWV 769 (Sources of Music and Their Interpretation: Duke Studies in Music)

Gregory G. Butler

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In his study of Bach’s Clavier-Ubung III, Gregory Butler makes a major contribution to organ music and Bach studies by giving to original printed copies of this work the kind of attention normally reserved for manuscripts. He details the work’s chronology, production, aim, and even spiritual program, treating the prints as unique documents with discernible variants and readings.
The need to examine early printed copies of music is being recognized as an important tool which can reveal as much as the study of early manuscripts. Composers themselves frequently took a major role in the preparation of the engraving.
Clavier-Ubung III—arguably the most carefully planned, intellectually conceived, and challenging volume of organ music ever published—is a particularly useful example of Bach’s printed works known chiefly from the print itself. The print is richer in information than any of the other original prints of Bach’s music, making it a distinctly suitable repertory for the author’s innovative treatment. Butler reveals fascinating new information on the genesis and history of the collection’s composition, finding, in part, that sections of the work were composed considerably earlier than previously was believed.

Bach and the Baroque: A Performing Guide to Baroque Music With Special Emphasis on the Music of J.S. Bach

Anthony Newman

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Bach in Kothen

Friedrich Smend

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Bach Studies 2

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This volume brings together essays on J. S. Bach and members of his family by a distinguished group of scholars. The essays address Bach's compositions, his knowledge of the musical past, his study of contemporaries, and the cultivation of his own music by later generations. The studies draw on source-critical scholarship, musical analysis, religious and social context, performance practice, and reception history--a broad range of techniques and issues in modern Bach scholarship.

Bach’s "Well-Tempered Clavier": An Exploration of the 48 Preludes and Fugues

Marjorie Wornell Engels

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Through a musical language involving symbols, numbers, and tonality, J.S. Bach created emotional dimension in the preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier. This book explores the use of that musical language, revealing how Bach used harmonic design and melodic and rhythmic motivic formulas to adhere to the basic doctrine of the Theory of Affects—i.e., that one mood will govern one piece. The book examines the significance of key and the emotional dimension Bach discerned in each tonality; the symbolism of melodic and rhythmic motifs; and the symbolism of numbers. It considers the thematic and rhythmic links between a prelude and its companion fugue in each book, and between a prelude and fugue in Book One and those in the same key in Book Two. It also includes reference to other instrumental works by Bach in the same key and melodic patterns.