Preface

Abbreviations

OUTLINES OF A MUSICAL PORTRAIT

New Perspectives on Bach Biography

The Family

Decisive Career Steps

Employers and Patrons

Buxtehude, Bach, and Seventeenth-Century Music in Retrospect

Bach and Johann Adam Reinken: A Context for the Early Works

Vivaldi's Compositional Art, Bach, and the Process of "Musical Thinking"

Bach and the Tradition of the Palestrina Style

NEW SOURCES: BROADENED PERSPECTIVES

The Neumeister Collection of Chorale Preludes from the Bach Circle

Bach's Audition for the St. Thomas Cantorate: The Cantata "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn"

Origins of the Kyrie of the B Minor Mass

The Reformation Cantata "Em feste Burg"

The Handexemplar of the Goldberg Variations

Bach's Personal Copy of the Schubler Chorales

The Clavier-Ubung Series

Text-Critical Comments on the Original Print of the Partitas

Bach's Leipzig Chamber Music

New Research on the Musical Offering

Bach's Last Fugue: Unfinished?

The Compositional History of the Art of Fugue

The Deathbed Chorale: Exposing a Myth

CONCEPTS, STYLE, AND CHRONOLOGY

Chronology and Style in the Early Works: A Background for the Orgel-Buchlein

The Architecture of the Passacaglia

The Organ in Bach's Cantatas

Apropos the Musical Offering: The Thema Regium and the Term Ricercar

The Agnus Dei of the B Minor Mass: Parody and New Composition Reconciled

Principles of Design and Order in Bach's Original Editions

Toward a Definition of the Last Period of Bach's Work

EARLY RECEPTION AND ARTISTIC LEGACY

On the Original Editions of Bach's Works

Bach's Vocal Music and Early Music Criticism

On the Recognition of Bach and "the Bach Chorale": Eighteenth-Century Perspectives

"The Extraordinary Perfections of the Hon. Court Composer": An Inquiry into the Individuality of Bach's Music

Notes and Postscripts

Acknowledgments

Index of Works by Johann Sebastian Bach

Individual Compositions
Collections

Index of Archival Sources

General Index