Bach Studies 2

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.

List of figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. An early version of the first movement of the Italian Concerto BWV 971 from the Scholz Collection? Kirsten Beißwenger; 2. J. S. Bach's reception of Tomaso Albinoni's mature concertos Gregory G. Butler; 3. J. S. Bach and G. F. Kauffmann: reflections on Bach's later style John Butt; 4. The variation principle in J. S. Bach's Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 Yoshitake Kobayashi; 5. Forms and functions of the choral movements in J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion Ulrich Leisinger; 6. The theological character of J. S. Bach's Musical Offering Michael Marissen; 7. A thirty-six voice canon in the hand of C. P. E. Bach Daniel R. Melamed; 8. Some questions of performance in J. S. Bach's Trauerode Joshua Rifkin; 9. J. S. Bach's A major flute sonata BWV 1032 revisted Jeanne Swack; 10. Rhetoric, the ricercar, and J. S. Bach's Musical Offering Paul Walker; 11. J. S. Bach and the legacy of the seventeenth century Christoph Wolff; 12. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach's Halle performances of cantatas by his father Peter Wollny; Index of J. S. Bach's works; General index.